The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 116
The goose accepted his offer with joy, and they managed to slip out of the palace unnoticed by anyone.
Who acts: goose, geese, Jem · What happens: accept, manage, slip out, unnotic, offer · To what, where: offer, palace
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 (goose, geese, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goose | det |
| 2 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 offer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 managed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 managed | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 managed | nsubj |
| 11 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 slip | mark |
| 13 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 managed | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slip | obl |
| 18 | unnoticed | unnotic | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 palace | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 anyone | case |
| 20 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 unnoticed | obl:agent |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the goose | Jem's offer | with joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | |||
| 2 | manage | past | geese = goose | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | slip out | to-infinitive | geese = goose not said here | the palace | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent palace=Patient | ||||
| 4 | unnotic | participle | the palace not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | offer | Jem | nom offer «communication 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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