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The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 26

As his father spoke, things grew clearer to Jem’s mind, and he saw now that he had not been dreaming, but had really served the old woman seven years in the shape of a squirrel.

Who acts: father, things, Jem · What happens: speak, grow, see, not dream, serve, mind · To what, where: old woman, shape · 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 (father, things, Jem), 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

marknmod:possnsubjadvclpunctnsubjxcompcasenmod:posscaseoblpunctccnsubjconjadvmodmarknsubjauxadvmodauxadvclpunctccauxadvmodconjdetamodobjnummodobl:unmarkedcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootAsSCONJhisPRONfatherNOUNspokeVERB,PUNCTthingsNOUNgrewVERBclearerADJtoADPJemPROPN’sPARTmindNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONsawVERBnowADVthatSCONJhePRONhadAUXnotPARTbeenAUXdreamingVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJhadAUXreallyADVservedVERBtheDEToldADJwomanNOUNsevenNUMyearsNOUNinADPtheDETshapeNOUNofADPaDETsquirrelNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_4 spokemark
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 fathernmod:poss
3fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing4 spokensubj
4spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 grewadvcl
5,,PUNCT_4 spokepunct
6thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur7 grewnsubj
7grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8clearerclearADJDegree=Cmp7 grewxcomp
9totoADP_12 mindcase
10JemJemPROPNNumber=Sing12 mindnmod:poss
11’s'sPART_10 Jemcase
12mindmindNOUNNumber=Sing8 clearerobl
13,,PUNCT_16 sawpunct
14andandCCONJ_16 sawcc
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 sawnsubj
16sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 grewconj
17nownowADVPronType=Dem16 sawadvmod
18thatthatSCONJ_23 dreamingmark
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 dreamingnsubj
20hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 dreamingaux
21notnotPARTPolarity=Neg23 dreamingadvmod
22beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part23 dreamingaux
23dreamingdreamVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 sawadvcl
24,,PUNCT_28 servedpunct
25butbutCCONJ_28 servedcc
26hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 servedaux
27reallyreallyADV_28 servedadvmod
28servedserveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part7 grewconj
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 womandet
30oldoldADJDegree=Pos31 womanamod
31womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing28 servedobj
32sevensevenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card33 yearsnummod
33yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur28 servedobl:unmarked
34ininADP_36 shapecase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 shapedet
36shapeshapeNOUNNumber=Sing28 servedobl
37ofofADP_39 squirrelcase
38aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 squirreldet
39squirrelsquirrelNOUNNumber=Sing36 shapenmod
40..PUNCT_7 grewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1speak speech: otherpastfairy's fathervn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2growpastthingsclear propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3seepastfathernowvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4not dreampast · perfect · progressivefathervn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5servepast · perfectthings not said herethe old womanthe shape of a squirrelyearvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent woman=Value in shape=Location
6mindJemnom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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