The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 7
‘Very ill, little sir, replied the father, to Jem’s surprise, for he did not seem to know him.
Who acts: ill little sir, sir, Jem · What happens: reply, not seem, know, surprise · To what, where: father, surprise, sir
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 (ill little sir, sir, Jem), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 ill | advmod |
| 3 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sir | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ill | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sir | amod |
| 6 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sir | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 father | det |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 surprise | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 surprise | case |
| 13 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Jem | case |
| 15 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seem | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 seem | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seem | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seem | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 seem | advmod |
| 21 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 know | mark |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seem | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | ill little sir | the father | Jem's surprise | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Topic to surprise=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not seem | past · do-support | sir | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | sir not said here | sir | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | surprise | Jem | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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