The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 65

‘Look here,’ said she, ‘this creature says he is our lost son.

Who acts: you, Hannah, creature · What happens: look, say, be · To what, where: lost son · 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 (you, Hannah, creature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:2353): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Look	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	parataxis
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 creature	det
11	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 son	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 son	cop
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
16	lost	lost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 son	amod
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Hannah			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	this creature			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	creature	our lost son		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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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