The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 108

As he did so, all his limbs began to crack and stretch; he felt his head rising above his shoulders; he glanced down at his nose, and saw it grow smaller and smaller; his chest and back grew flat, and his legs grew long.

Who acts: Jem, limbs, head, face, chest, legs · What happens: do, begin, crack, stretch, feel, rise · To what, where: head, shoulders

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 (Jem, limbs, head, face), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 did	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	advcl
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 limbs	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 limbs	nmod:poss
8	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 crack	mark
11	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stretch	cc
13	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 crack	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 felt	nsubj
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 felt	obj
19	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 felt	xcomp
20	above	above	ADP	_	22 shoulders	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulders	nmod:poss
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rising	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 glanced	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 glanced	nsubj
25	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 glanced	compound:prt
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 nose	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 nose	nmod:poss
29	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glanced	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saw	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 saw	cc
32	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 glanced	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 grow	nsubj
34	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 saw	xcomp
35	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 grow	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 smaller	cc
37	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 smaller	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 grew	punct
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 chest	nmod:poss
40	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 grew	nsubj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 back	cc
42	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 chest	conj
43	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	parataxis
44	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 grew	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 grew	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 grew	cc
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 legs	nmod:poss
48	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 grew	nsubj
49	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 grew	conj
50	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 grew	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Jem				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	Jem's limbs				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	crack	to-infinitive	Jem's limbs not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stretch	infinitive	Jem's limbs not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	feel	past	Jem	Jem's head			tree rules
6	rise	gerund	Jem's head not said here		Jem's shoulders		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above shoulder=Location
7	glance down	past	Jem			at Jem's nose	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at nose=Theme
8	see	past	Jem not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	grow	infinitive	face			small property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	grow	past	Jem's chest and back			flat property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	grow	past	Jem's legs			long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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