The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 55

‘No wonder you did not know your child again, dear mother,’ thought he; ‘he wasn’t like this when you were so proud of his looks.’

Who acts: you, wonder, this · What happens: not know, think, not be, be · To what, where: child

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 (you, wonder, this), 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 wonder	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 wonder	det
3	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	nsubj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wonder	acl:relcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 child	nmod:poss
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 know	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
12	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mother	amod
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wonder	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 proud	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 this	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 this	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 this	cop
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 this	advmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 this	case
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 proud	nsubj
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 proud	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 proud	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 proud	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 proud	advmod
29	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thought	ccomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 looks	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 looks	nmod:poss
32	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 proud	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 proud	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	you	your child	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	no wonder and dear mother	child			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	not is	past	wonder			like this	tree rules
4	is	past	this			of wonder's looks; proud property	tree rules

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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