The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 11

‘I had one: he was called Jem, and would have been a tall sturdy lad of twenty by this time, and able to help me well.

What happens: call, be, help · To what, where: son, tall sturdy lad, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	_	3 had	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	aux
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 had	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	aux:pass
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lad	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lad	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 lad	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 lad	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 lad	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lad	det
16	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lad	amod
17	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lad	amod
18	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 twenty	case
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 lad	nmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lad	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 able	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 able	cc
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 called	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 help	mark
28	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 help	obj
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 help	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive	son				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	would · perfect	a tall sturdy lad		time	of twenty	tree rules
3	help	to-infinitive		me		well property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary

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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