The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 48

‘Good morning, Urban,’ said he; ‘may I look at myself in your glass for a moment?’

Who acts: Jem, I · What happens: say, look · To what, where: glass · 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 (Jem, I), 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	_	3 morning	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Urban	punct
5	Urban	urban	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 look	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 myself	case
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 look	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 glass	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 glass	nmod:poss
19	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 moment	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jem						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	may	I			your glass	moment	at myself	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at myself=Theme

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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