The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 4

The cobbler was so busy at work that he did not see him for some time, but, happening to look up, he caught sight of his visitor, and letting shoes, thread, and everything fall to the ground, he cried with horror: ‘Good heavens! what is that?’

Who acts: cobbler, everything, that · What happens: be, not see, happen, look up, catch, let · To what, where: work, him, sight, shoes, visitor

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 (cobbler, everything, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cobbler	det
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 busy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 busy	advmod
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 work	case
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 busy	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 busy	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 caught	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 caught	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 happening	punct
20	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 caught	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 happening	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 look	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 happening	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 caught	nsubj
26	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	conj
27	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 caught	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 visitor	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 visitor	nmod:poss
30	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sight	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 letting	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 letting	cc
33	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 caught	advcl
34	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 letting	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thread	punct
36	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shoes	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fall	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fall	cc
39	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	40 fall	nsubj
40	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	parataxis
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 ground	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ground	det
43	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fall	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 cried	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 cried	nsubj
46	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	conj
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 horror	case
48	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cried	obl
49	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 heavens	punct
50	‘	'	PUNCT	_	52 heavens	punct
51	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 heavens	amod
52	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 busy	conj
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 busy	parataxis
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 what	cop
56	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 what	nsubj
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cobbler		work		busy property	tree rules
2	not see	past · do-support	cobbler	him = he		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	happen	gerund	cobbler not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look up	to-infinitive	cobbler not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	catch	past	cobbler	sight of cobbler's visitor				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
6	let	gerund	cobbler not said here	shoes and thread				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
7	fall	present	everything				to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
8	cry speech: express	past	cobbler				with horror	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with horror=Theme
9	is a	present	that					tree rules
10	sight			cobbler's visitor				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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