The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 109
‘Why,’ cried the astonished cook, ‘where did you learn cooking?
Who acts: you · What happens: cry, learn · To what, where: astonished cook, cooking
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 cried | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cook | det |
| 7 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cook | amod |
| 8 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 learn | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 learn | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 learn | advmod |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 learn | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 learn | nsubj |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 15 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 learn | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the astonished cook | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Topic | |||||
| 2 | learn | past · do-support | you | cooking | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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