The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 94
‘What matters an extra egg or two, or a little butter or flour and spice more or less, in such a house as this?’ said he.
Who acts: fellow · What happens: matter, spice, say · To what, where: extra egg, house · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 matters | nsubj |
| 3 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | ccomp |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 egg | det |
| 5 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 egg | amod |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matters | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 two | cc |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 egg | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 butter | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 butter | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 butter | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 butter | amod |
| 13 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matters | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 flour | cc |
| 15 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 butter | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spice | cc |
| 17 | spice | spice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 matters | conj |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 spice | advmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 less | cc |
| 20 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 more | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 house | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 house | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spice | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 this | case |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 house | nmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | a extra egg | a little butter or flour obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spice | present | such house as this | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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