The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 117
They got through the journey without accident, and the wizard soon released his daughter, and loaded Jem with thanks and valuable presents.
Who acts: geese, wizard · What happens: get, release, load · To what, where: journey, daughter, Jem
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 (geese, wizard), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 journey | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 accident | case |
| 7 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 released | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 released | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wizard | det |
| 11 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 released | nsubj |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 released | advmod |
| 13 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 released | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 loaded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 loaded | cc |
| 18 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 19 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 loaded | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 thanks | case |
| 21 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 loaded | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 presents | cc |
| 23 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 presents | amod |
| 24 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 thanks | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | geese = goose | the journey | without accident | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through journey=Destination | |||
| 2 | release | past | the wizard | wizard's daughter | soon property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer daughter=Source | |||
| 3 | load | past | geese = goose not said here | Jem | with thanks and valuable presents | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent jem=Destination with thanks=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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