The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 117
The first cook took a golden spoon, washed and wiped it, and handed it to the head cook, who solemnly approached, tasted the dishes, and smacked his lips over them.
Who acts: first cook, head cook · What happens: take, wash, wipe, hand, approach, taste · To what, where: golden spoon, spoon, head cook, dishes, lips
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 (first cook, head cook), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 cook | amod |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spoon | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spoon | amod |
| 7 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 washed | punct |
| 9 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wiped | cc |
| 11 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 washed | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wiped | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 handed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 handed | cc |
| 15 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 handed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 cook | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cook | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cook | compound |
| 20 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 handed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 approached | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 approached | nsubj |
| 23 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 24 approached | advmod |
| 24 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cook | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tasted | punct |
| 26 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 handed | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dishes | det |
| 28 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 tasted | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 smacked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 smacked | cc |
| 31 | smacked | smack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 lips | nmod:poss |
| 33 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 smacked | obj |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 smacked | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the first cook | a golden spoon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wash | past | the first cook not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wipe | past | the first cook not said here | spoon | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hand | past | the first cook not said here | spoon | the head cook | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cook=Destination | |||
| 5 | approach | past | the head cook | solemnly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | taste | past | the first cook not said here | the dishes | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme dish=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | smack | past | the first cook not said here | cook's lips | over lips = lip | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient |
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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