The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 76
Suddenly he remembered that he was an excellent cook, and he determined to look out for a place.
Who acts: son · What happens: remember, be, determine, look out · To what, where: excellent cook · 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 (son), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 cook | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cook | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cook | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cook | det |
| 8 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cook | amod |
| 9 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 determined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 determined | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 determined | nsubj |
| 13 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 determined | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 look | compound:prt |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | son | suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | son | a excellent cook | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | determine | past | son | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look out | to-infinitive | son not said here | for a place | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for place=Theme |
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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