The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 135
He never even grumbled at anything, had five meals instead of three, thought everything delicious, and grew fatter daily.
Who acts: duke · What happens: not grumble, have, think, grow · To what, where: anything, five meals, everything
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 (duke), 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 | 4 grumbled | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 grumbled | advmod |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 grumbled | advmod |
| 4 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 anything | case |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 grumbled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grumbled | conj |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 meals | nummod |
| 10 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 13 three | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 had | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 thought | obj |
| 17 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 everything | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grew | cc |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grumbled | conj |
| 21 | fatter | fat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 20 grew | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grumble speech: other | participle | duke | anything | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | duke not said here | five meals | instead three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | duke not said here | everything | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | duke not said here | daily, fat property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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