The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 139
One morning he was in the goose market, looking for some nice fat geese.
Who acts: incident, goose market · What happens: be, look · To what, where: goose market
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 (incident, goose market), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 market | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 market | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 market | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 market | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 market | det |
| 7 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 market | compound |
| 8 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 market | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 geese | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 geese | det |
| 13 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 geese | amod |
| 14 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 geese | amod |
| 15 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looking | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 market | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | incident | the goose market | morning | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | the goose market not said here | for some nice fat geese | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for goose=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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