The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 52
So spoke the barber, and a titter ran round the room.
Who acts: titter · What happens: speak, run · To what, where: barber, room · 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 (titter), 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 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 barber | det |
| 4 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 titter | det |
| 8 | titter | titter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the barber | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run | past | a titter | the room | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round room=Trajectory |
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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