The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 66
He has been telling me how he was stolen seven years ago, and bewitched by a fairy.’
Who acts: creature · What happens: tell, steal, bewitch · To what, where: me, creature · 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 (creature), 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 | 4 telling | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 telling | aux |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 telling | iobj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 stolen | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stolen | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stolen | aux:pass |
| 9 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 telling | ccomp |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 stolen | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bewitched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bewitched | cc |
| 15 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stolen | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 fairy | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fairy | det |
| 18 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bewitched | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · progressive | creature | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | steal | past · passive | creature | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bewitch | participle | by a fairy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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