The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 59
Then he remembered the morning when he had first seen the old woman, and her threats to him, and without saying a word he left the barber’s shop.
Who acts: head · What happens: remember, see, say, leave · To what, where: threats, old woman, word, shop · 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 (head), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 seen | advmod |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 remembered | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threats | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 threats | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 threats | nmod:poss |
| 17 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remembered | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 threats | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saying | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saying | cc |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 saying | mark |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 remembered | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 word | det |
| 25 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saying | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 word | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 barber | det |
| 29 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shop | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 barber | case |
| 31 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | head | woman's threats to man | then; morning | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | head | the old woman | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | head not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | head | the barber's shop | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=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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