The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 74

The poor little dwarf roamed about all the rest of the day without food or drink, and at night was glad to lie down and sleep on the steps of a church.

What happens: roam, be, lie down, sleep, step · To what, where: poor little dwarf, church

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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dwarf	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dwarf	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dwarf	amod
4	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	roamed	roam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dwarf	acl
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 rest	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 rest	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roamed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	nmod
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 food	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roamed	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 drink	cc
16	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 food	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 glad	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 glad	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 night	case
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 glad	obl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 glad	cop
22	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dwarf	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 lie	mark
24	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 glad	xcomp
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 lie	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sleep	cc
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 glad	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 steps	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 steps	det
30	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sleep	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 church	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 church	det
33	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 steps	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dwarf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	roam	participle	the poor little dwarf not said here		about all rest of the day; without food or drink	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about rest=Trajectory
2	is	past		night	glad property	tree rules
3	lie down	to-infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sleep	present			on the steps of a church	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	step		a church			nom step «act transitive»: of=patient

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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