The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 138
Dwarf Long Nose--as he was always called--made a practice of doing his marketing as much as possible himself, and whenever time allowed went to the market to buy his poultry and fruit.
Who acts: Dwarf Long Nose, practice, time, incident · What happens: call, make, do, allow, go, buy · To what, where: incident, practice, marketing, time, market, poultry · 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 (Dwarf Long Nose, practice, time, incident), 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 | Dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Nose | amod |
| 2 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Nose | amod |
| 3 | Nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 called | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 called | advmod |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Nose | acl:relcl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 Nose | punct |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 practice | det |
| 13 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 doing | mark |
| 15 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 practice | acl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 marketing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | marketing | marketing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 doing | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 doing | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 possible | mark |
| 21 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 much | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 possible | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 25 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 went | advmod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | nsubj |
| 27 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 time | acl |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 market | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 market | det |
| 31 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 buy | mark |
| 33 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 went | advcl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 poultry | nmod:poss |
| 35 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 buy | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fruit | cc |
| 37 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 poultry | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | incident | always property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Dwarf Long Nose | a practice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset practice=Product | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | a practice not said here | incident's marketing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | allow | participle | time not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 5 | go | past | time | the market | whenever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | buy | to-infinitive | time not said here | incident's poultry and fruit | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poultry=Theme | ||||
| 7 | market | incident | nom marketing «act intransitive»: poss=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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