The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 70

Why I told him all about it myself only an hour ago, and then he goes off to humbug you.

Who acts: I, cobbler · What happens: tell, go off, humbug · To what, where: myself, you · 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 (I, cobbler), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 told	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 it	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	obl
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 told	iobj
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 hour	advmod
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ago	obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 goes	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 goes	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 goes	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 goes	nsubj
17	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 goes	compound:prt
19	to	to	PART	_	20 humbug	mark
20	humbug	humbug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 goes	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 humbug	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		myself		about stall; ago property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient myself=Topic
2	go off	present	cobbler			then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	humbug	to-infinitive	cobbler not said here	you				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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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