The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 25

No one seemed to know the old woman who bought the vegetables either; only one old woman, who is ninety years old, said it might have been the fairy Herbaline, who came into the town once in every fifty years to buy things.’

Who acts: one, old woman, one old woman, Many, fairy · What happens: seem, know, buy, be, say, come · To what, where: one old woman, old woman, vegetables, fairy, town, things · 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 (one, old woman, one old woman, Many), 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	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 know	mark
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bought	nsubj
10	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vegetables	det
12	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bought	obj
13	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 bought	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 woman	punct
15	only	only	ADV	_	18 woman	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 woman	nummod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 old	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 old	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 old	cop
22	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 old	obl:unmarked
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 woman	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fairy	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fairy	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 fairy	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 fairy	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fairy	det
32	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	ccomp
33	Herbaline	Herbaline	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 fairy	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fairy	parataxis
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 town	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 town	det
39	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 came	advmod
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 years	case
42	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	44 years	det
43	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 years	nummod
44	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 came	obl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 buy	mark
46	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 came	advcl
47	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 buy	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 fairy	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	no one	one old woman				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	know	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the old woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	buy	past	the old woman	the vegetables			either property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetable=Theme
4	is	present	one old woman			year	old property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	no one not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	might · perfect	Many	the fairy				tree rules
7	come	past	the fairy		the town	year	once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
8	buy	to-infinitive	the fairy not said here	things				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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