The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 29
To learn to rub up cocoa nuts, and to polish glass floors, and to be taught cooking by guinea pigs!
What happens: learn, rub up, polish, teach, cook · To what, where: cocoa nuts, glass floors
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: 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 learn | mark |
| 2 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 rub | mark |
| 4 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 learn | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rub | compound:prt |
| 6 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nuts | compound |
| 7 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rub | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 polish | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 polish | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 polish | mark |
| 11 | polish | polish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 learn | conj |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 floors | compound |
| 13 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 polish | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taught | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 taught | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 taught | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 taught | aux:pass |
| 18 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 polish | conj |
| 19 | cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 taught | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 pigs | case |
| 21 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pigs | compound |
| 22 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cooking | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | rub up | to-infinitive | cocoa nuts | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | |||||
| 3 | polish | to-infinitive | glass floors | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent floor=Destination | |||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive · passive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | cook | gerund | by guinea pigs | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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