The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 82
When he heard him ask for a place as cook, he said: ‘You make some mistake, my lad.
Who acts: steward, Jem, You · What happens: hear, ask, say, make · To what, where: Jem, mistake · 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 (steward, Jem, You), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 cook | case |
| 10 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 mistake | det |
| 19 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lad | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lad | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | steward | Jem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Jem not said here | for a place; as cook | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | steward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | present | You | some mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |
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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