The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 93

But the dwarf was not to be put off.

What happens: not put off · To what, where: dwarf

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: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dwarf	det
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 put	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 put	aux:pass
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 put	compound:prt
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put off	past · passive		the dwarf					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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