The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 136
And so Jem lived on for two years, much respected and considered, and only saddened when he thought of his parents.
Who acts: Jem · What happens: live, respect, consider, sadden, think
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lived | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 3 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 respected | punct |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 respected | advmod |
| 11 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lived | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 considered | cc |
| 13 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 respected | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saddened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saddened | cc |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 saddened | advmod |
| 17 | saddened | sadden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 thought | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saddened | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 parents | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 parents | nmod:poss |
| 23 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Jem | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | respect | participle | Jem not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | consider | participle | Jem not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sadden | past | Jem not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Jem | of Jem's parents | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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