The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 46
So saying, he gently pushed Jem into the street, shut the door, and went back to his work.
Who acts: need · What happens: say, push, shut, go back, work · To what, where: Jem, street, door · 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 (need), 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 | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 pushed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pushed | nsubj |
| 5 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 6 pushed | advmod |
| 6 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pushed | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 street | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 street | det |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shut | punct |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pushed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pushed | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 work | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 work | nmod:poss |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | need not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | push | past | need | Jem | the street | gently property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jem=Theme into street=Destination | ||
| 3 | shut | infinitive | need not said here | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | need not said here | to need's work result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result | ||||
| 5 | work | need | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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