The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 78
When he reached the palace all the servants crowded about him, and made fun of him, and at last their shouts and laughter grew so loud that the head steward rushed out, crying, ‘For goodness sake, be quiet, can’t you.
Who acts: son, last · What happens: reach, make, shout, grow, rush out, cry · To what, where: palace, fun, head steward
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, last), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 servants | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servants | det |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reached | obl |
| 9 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 servants | amod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 crowded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fun | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 grew | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 last | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shouts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 last | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 laughter | cc |
| 25 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 last | conj |
| 26 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 loud | advmod |
| 28 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grew | xcomp |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 steward | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 steward | det |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 steward | compound |
| 32 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 loud | obl |
| 33 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 steward | acl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 rushed | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 crying | punct |
| 36 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 grew | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 quiet | punct |
| 38 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 quiet | punct |
| 39 | For | for | ADP | _ | 41 sake | case |
| 40 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sake | compound |
| 41 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 quiet | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sake | punct |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 quiet | cop |
| 44 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 crying | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 you | punct |
| 46 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 you | aux |
| 47 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 you | advmod |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 quiet | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | son | the palace | all servants obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | fun of son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | present | last and laughter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | last and laughter | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rush out | participle | the head steward not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | gerund | last and laughter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | infinitive | last and laughter not said here | for goodness sake; quiet 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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