The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 64
She gathered up her baskets, told Jem to follow her, and went straight to the cobbler’s stall.
Who acts: Hannah · What happens: gather up, tell, follow, go · To what, where: baskets, Jem, Hannah, stall · 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 (Hannah), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 baskets | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 baskets | nmod:poss |
| 5 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gathered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 8 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 follow | mark |
| 10 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 follow | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gathered | conj |
| 15 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 20 stall | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 stall | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cobbler | det |
| 18 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stall | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 cobbler | case |
| 20 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather up | past | Hannah | Hannah's baskets | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Hannah not said here | Jem | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jem=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hannah not said here | Hannah | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Hannah not said here | the cobbler's stall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stall=Initial_Location |
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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