The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 122
He hurried on his best clothes and followed the messenger.
Who acts: cook · What happens: hurry, follow · To what, where: best clothes, messenger
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 clothes | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 clothes | amod |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 hurried | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 followed | cc |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurried | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 messenger | det |
| 10 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | cook | cook's best clothes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on clothes=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | cook not said here | the messenger | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=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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