The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 80
Some of the servants ran off at once, and others pointed out Jem.
Who acts: servants, others · What happens: run off, point out · To what, where: Jem
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 (servants, others), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 servants | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 servants | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pointed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pointed | cc |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pointed | nsubj |
| 12 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ran | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pointed | compound:prt |
| 14 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pointed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | some servants | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | point out | participle | others | Jem | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jem=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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