The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 77

As soon as it was quite daylight he set out for the palace, for he knew that the grand duke who reigned over the country was fond of good things.

Who acts: place, son, grand duke · What happens: be, set out, know, reign · To what, where: country · 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 (place, son, grand duke), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 set	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 daylight	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 daylight	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 daylight	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 daylight	advmod
7	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	nsubj
9	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 set	compound:prt
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 fond	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 duke	det
20	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 duke	amod
21	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fond	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 reigned	nsubj
23	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 duke	acl:relcl
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 country	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 country	det
26	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reigned	obl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fond	cop
28	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knew	ccomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 things	case
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fond	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	place		as daylight	tree rules
2	set out	past	son		for the palace; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	son			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	reign	past	the grand duke	the country		tree rules
5	is	past	the grand duke		of good things; fond property	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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