The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 87
So saying, the head steward led him to the head cook’s room.
Who acts: head steward · What happens: say, lead · To what, where: Jem, room · 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 (head steward), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 steward | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steward | compound |
| 6 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | nsubj |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saying | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cook | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cook | compound |
| 12 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 room | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 cook | case |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | lead | past | the head steward | Jem | the head cook's room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination |
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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