The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 92

Oh, my dear little fellow, whoever sent you to me wanted to make fun of you.’

Who acts: whoever, dear little fellow · What happens: send, want, make · To what, where: you, fun

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 (whoever, dear little fellow), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nmod:poss
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wanted	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
8	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	acl:relcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sent	iobj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sent	obl
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 fun	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	whoever		you	to me	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to i=Destination
2	want	past	my dear little fellow				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	my dear little fellow not said here	fun of you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=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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