The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 30

He stood there thinking, till at last his father asked him:

Who acts: father, last father · What happens: stand, think, ask · To what, where: rage

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, last 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
4	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 asked	mark
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 father	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 father	amod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	father		there	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	gerund	father not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	father's last father	rage		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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