The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 35

‘Well, everyone to his taste,’ replied the cobbler; ‘but I must say if I had such a nose I would have a nice red leather cover made for it.

Who acts: everyone, I, Jem · What happens: reply, say, have, make, taste · To what, where: cobbler, nose, nice red leather cover · 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 (everyone, I, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	10 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 replied	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 taste	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 taste	nmod:poss
7	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everyone	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cobbler	det
12	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	conj
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 have	advcl
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 nose	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 nose	det
24	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cover	det
29	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cover	amod
30	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cover	amod
31	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cover	compound
32	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 cover	acl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	everyone	the cobbler		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cobbler=Topic
2	say speech: assert	must	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	such nose		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
4	have	would	I	a nice red leather cover		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Patient
5	make	participle		a nice red leather cover not said here	for nose	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for it=Asset
6	taste		Jem			nom taste «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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