The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 56
His eyes had grown quite small, like pigs’ eyes, his nose was huge and hung down over his mouth and chin, his throat seemed to have disappeared altogether, and his head was fixed stiffly between his shoulders.
Who acts: eyes, nose, throat · What happens: grow, be, hang down, seem, disappear, fix · To what, where: mouth, head
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 (eyes, nose, throat), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 small | advmod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grown | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyes | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 9 pigs | case |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grown | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 huge | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nose | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 huge | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 huge | cop |
| 16 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grown | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hung | cc |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 huge | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 hung | compound:prt |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hung | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 chin | cc |
| 24 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mouth | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seemed | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 throat | nmod:poss |
| 27 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seemed | nsubj |
| 28 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 huge | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 disappeared | mark |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 disappeared | aux |
| 31 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 seemed | xcomp |
| 32 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 31 disappeared | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fixed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fixed | cc |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 fixed | aux:pass |
| 38 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 disappeared | advcl |
| 39 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 38 fixed | advmod |
| 40 | between | between | ADP | _ | 42 shoulders | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 42 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 fixed | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | child's eyes | like pigs's eyes; small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | eye's nose | huge property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang down | participle | eye's nose not said here | eye's mouth and chin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over mouth=Location | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | eye's throat | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | disappear | to-infinitive · perfect | eye's throat not said here | altogether property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fix | past · passive | eye's head | between eye's shoulders; stiffly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
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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