The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 140
No one thought of laughing at his appearance now; he was known as the duke’s special body cook, and every goose-woman felt honoured if his nose turned her way.
Who acts: one thought, goose woman, nose · What happens: laugh, know, feel, honour, turn · To what, where: appearance, one thought, way
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 (one thought, goose woman, nose), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 thought | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thought | nummod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 laughing | mark |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 thought | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 appearance | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughing | obl |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 laughing | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 cook | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 duke | det |
| 16 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cook | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 duke | case |
| 18 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cook | amod |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cook | compound |
| 20 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 felt | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 felt | cc |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 woman | det |
| 24 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 woman | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 goose | punct |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 felt | nsubj |
| 27 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | conj |
| 28 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 felt | xcomp |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 turned | mark |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 nose | nmod:poss |
| 31 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turned | nsubj |
| 32 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 honoured | advcl |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 way | nmod:poss |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turned | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | no one thought not said here | incident's appearance | now | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | know | past · passive | no one thought | as the duke's special body cook | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as cook=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | every goose woman | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | honour | participle | every goose woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | turn a condition, not said to happen | past | incident's nose | woman's way | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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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