The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 129

Of course, Jem could not say he had been turned into a squirrel, but he said he was without parents and had been taught cooking by an old woman.

Who acts: Jem · What happens: not say, turn, say, be, teach, cook · To what, where: Jem · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 Jem	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Of	punct
4	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turned	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 turned	aux:pass
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 say	ccomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 squirrel	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 squirrel	det
14	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	parataxis
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 parents	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 parents	cop
21	without	without	ADP	_	22 parents	case
22	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 taught	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taught	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 taught	aux:pass
26	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	conj
27	cooking	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 taught	xcomp
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 woman	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 woman	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woman	amod
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cooking	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	could			of Jem	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	turn	past · perfect · passive		Jem	into a squirrel result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into squirrel=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	Jem			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Jem		without parents	tree rules
5	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive	Jem not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic
6	cook	gerund	Jem not said here		by a old woman	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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