The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 47
Jem stepped across to the barber, whom he had known in old days.
Who acts: Jem · What happens: step, know · To what, where: barber
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 (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 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | across | across | ADV | _ | 2 stepped | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 barber | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 barber | det |
| 6 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 known | punct |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 known | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 known | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 known | aux |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 barber | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 known | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | Jem | the barber | across property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to barber=Destination | |||
| 2 | know | past · perfect · passive | the barber | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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