The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 133

He lost no time in setting to work, and everyone rejoiced at having him in the kitchen, for the duke was not a patient man, and had been known to throw plates and dishes at his cooks and servants if the things served were not quite to his taste.

Who acts: Jem, everyone, duke, things · What happens: lose, set, work, rejoice, have, not be · To what, where: Jem, kitchen, patient man, plates, cooks, things

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, everyone, duke, things), 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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 setting	mark
6	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lost	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 work	mark
8	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 setting	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rejoiced	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rejoiced	cc
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 rejoiced	nsubj
12	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
13	at	at	SCONJ	_	14 having	mark
14	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 rejoiced	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 having	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 kitchen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kitchen	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 having	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 man	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 duke	det
22	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 man	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 man	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rejoiced	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 known	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 known	cc
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 known	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 known	aux:pass
32	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rejoiced	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 throw	mark
34	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 known	xcomp
35	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 throw	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 dishes	cc
37	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 plates	conj
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 cooks	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 cooks	nmod:poss
40	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 throw	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 servants	cc
42	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 cooks	conj
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 taste	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 things	det
45	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 taste	nsubj
46	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 things	acl
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 taste	cop
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 taste	advmod
49	quite	quite	ADV	_	52 taste	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 taste	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 taste	nmod:poss
52	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 throw	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Jem			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set	gerund	Jem not said here					tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	Jem not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rejoice	past	everyone					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	gerund	everyone not said here	Jem	the kitchen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	not is a	past	the duke	a patient man				tree rules
7	know	past · perfect · passive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Stimulus
8	throw	to-infinitive		plates and dishes	Jem's cooks and servants			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent plate=Theme at cook=Destination
9	serve	participle		the things not said here				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
10	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	the things				to Jem's taste	tree rules

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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