The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 112
He could not nearly reach up to the kitchen range, but by putting a wide plank on two chairs he managed very well.
Who acts: Jem · What happens: not reach up, put, manage · To what, where: wide plank, two chairs
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 (Jem), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reach | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reach | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reach | advmod |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 reach | advmod |
| 5 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 reach | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 range | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 range | det |
| 9 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 range | compound |
| 10 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reach | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 managed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 managed | cc |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 putting | mark |
| 14 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 managed | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 plank | det |
| 16 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 plank | amod |
| 17 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 putting | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 chairs | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 chairs | nummod |
| 20 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 putting | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 managed | nsubj |
| 22 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reach | conj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 well | advmod |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 managed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach up | could | Jem | to the kitchen range; nearly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | gerund | Jem not said here | a wide plank | two chairs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent plank=Theme on chair=Destination | |||
| 3 | manage | past | Jem | well property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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