The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 12

Why, when he was only twelve he was quite sharp and quick, and had learnt many little things, and a good-looking boy too, and pleasant, so that customers were taken by him.

Who acts: son · What happens: be, learn, look, take · To what, where: twelve, many little things, customers

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 (son), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 sharp	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 twelve	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 twelve	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 twelve	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 twelve	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 twelve	advmod
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sharp	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sharp	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sharp	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 sharp	advmod
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 quick	cc
13	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sharp	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 learnt	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 learnt	cc
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 learnt	aux
17	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sharp	parataxis
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 learnt	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 boy	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 boy	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 boy	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 looking	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 good	punct
26	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 boy	amod
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sharp	conj
28	too	too	ADV	_	27 boy	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pleasant	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pleasant	cc
31	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sharp	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 taken	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 taken	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 taken	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 taken	aux:pass
37	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 pleasant	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 taken	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sharp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	son	twelve		tree rules
2	is	past	son		sharp property	tree rules
3	be		son not said here			tree rules
4	learn	past · perfect		many little things		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	be		son not said here			tree rules
7	take	past · passive	son	customers		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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