The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 106
So they went back to Jem’s rooms, and here he gathered together some fifty ducats he had saved, his clothes and shoes, and tied them all up in a bundle.
Who acts: money, Jem · What happens: go back, gather, save, tie up · To what, where: fifty ducats, money, bundle
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 (money, Jem), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 rooms | case |
| 6 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Jem | case |
| 8 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gathered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gathered | cc |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gathered | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gathered | nsubj |
| 13 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 gathered | advmod |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 ducats | det |
| 16 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 ducats | nummod |
| 17 | ducats | ducat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gathered | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saved | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saved | aux |
| 20 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 ducats | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clothes | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 ducats | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shoes | cc |
| 25 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ducats | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tied | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tied | cc |
| 28 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tied | obj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 tied | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 bundle | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bundle | det |
| 34 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tied | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | money | to Jem's rooms result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | ||||
| 2 | gather | past | Jem | some fifty ducats and Jem's clothes and shoes | here | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ducat=Theme | ||
| 3 | save | past · perfect | Jem | some fifty ducats and Jem's clothes and shoes not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ducat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tie up | past | money not said here | money | a bundle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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