The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 41

So, then, the old woman had changed his shape, and that was why his own mother did not know him, and called him a horrid dwarf!

Who acts: old woman, that, own mother · What happens: change, be, not know, call · To what, where: shape, piece · 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 (old woman, that, own mother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 changed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 changed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 changed	aux
9	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shape	nmod:poss
11	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 why	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 why	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 why	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 why	cop
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 changed	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mother	amod
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 know	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 why	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 know	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 called	cc
26	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 changed	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 called	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dwarf	det
29	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dwarf	amod
30	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	past · perfect	the old woman	piece's shape		then		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
2	is	past	that				why property	tree rules
3	not know	past · do-support	piece's own mother	piece				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	call	past			piece			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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