The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 28

Seven years of his youth had been stolen from him, and what had he got in return?

Who acts: father · What happens: steal, have, get · To what, where: Seven years, return

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), 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	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stolen	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 youth	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 youth	nmod:poss
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 years	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stolen	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 stolen	aux:pass
8	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stolen	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stolen	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 return	case
18	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stolen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · passive		Seven years of father's youth		from father	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from he=Source
2	have	past					tree rules
3	get	past	father		return		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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