The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 60
He determined to go again to his mother, and found her still in the market-place.
Who acts: head · What happens: determine, go, find · To what, where: mother, market place
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | xcomp |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 determined | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 found | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 16 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 market | punct |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | head | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | head not said here | again | to head's mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | find | past | head not said here | mother | the market place | still | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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