The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 23
‘Yes, seven years: we had him cried--we went from house to house.
Who acts: we · What happens: cry, go · To what, where: house
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 (we), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 years | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 years | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | aux |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past · perfect | year | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | we | house | to house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location to house=Destination |
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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