The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 115

Then he began to count: ‘One, two, three,’ till he got to five hundred when he cried, ‘Now!’

Who acts: Jem · What happens: begin, count, get, cry · To what, where: One, five hundred

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 count	mark
5	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 One	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 One	punct
8	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 count	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 two	punct
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 One	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 three	punct
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 One	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 got	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	advcl
18	to	too	ADV	Typo=Yes	20 hundred	advmod
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hundred	compound
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 got	obj
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 cried	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cried	nsubj
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 got	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Now	punct
26	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 cried	advmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	begin	past	Jem		then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	count	to-infinitive	Jem not said here	One		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	get	past	Jem	five hundred		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hundred=Stimulus
4	cry speech: express	past	Jem		now	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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