The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 1

He noticed one woman sitting apart with a number of geese, but not crying or praising them like the rest.

Who acts: He, one woman · What happens: notice, sit, not cry, praise · To what, where: one woman, geese

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, one woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 woman	nummod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noticed	obj
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 woman	acl
6	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 sitting	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 number	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 number	det
9	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 geese	case
11	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 number	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crying	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 crying	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 crying	advmod
15	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 noticed	advcl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 praising	cc
17	praising	praise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 crying	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 praising	obj
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 rest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 praising	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	notice	past	He	one woman		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	sit	gerund	one woman not said here		with a number of geese; apart property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not cry speech: express	gerund	He not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	praise	gerund	He not said here	geese = goose	like the rest	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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