The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 89
The head cook looked him over from head to foot, and burst out laughing.
Who acts: head cook · What happens: look over, burst out, laugh · To what, where: Jem, head
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 cook), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cook | compound |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 burst | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 burst | cc |
| 13 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 burst | compound:prt |
| 15 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 burst | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look over | past | the head cook | Jem | head to foot | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute | |||
| 2 | burst out | past | the head cook not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | the head cook not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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