The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 113
But his joy did not make him forget all he owed to his friend Mimi.
Who acts: joy, Jem · What happens: not make, not forget, owe, joy · To what, where: Jem, all, friend
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 (joy, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 make | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 make | advmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 forget | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 owed | nsubj |
| 11 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 friend | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 owed | obl |
| 15 | Mimi | Mimi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 friend | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | past · do-support | Jem's joy | Jem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not forget | infinitive | Jem not said here | all | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | owe | past | Jem | Jem's friend | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to friend=Goal | ||||
| 4 | joy | Jem | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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