The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 2

He went up to her, felt and weighed her geese, and, finding them very good, bought three and the cage to put them in, hoisted them on his broad shoulders, and set off on his way back.

Who acts: He, finding · What happens: go up, feel, weigh, find, buy, put · To what, where: woman, geese, three, broad shoulders, way

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 (He, finding), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 felt	punct
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 weighed	cc
9	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 geese	nmod:poss
11	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 weighed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bought	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finding	punct
15	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 bought	csubj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 finding	obj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 good	advmod
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 finding	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finding	punct
20	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 bought	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cage	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cage	det
24	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 three	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 put	mark
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cage	acl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	in	in	ADV	_	26 put	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hoisted	punct
30	hoisted	hoist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bought	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hoisted	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 shoulders	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 shoulders	nmod:poss
34	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shoulders	amod
35	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hoisted	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 set	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 set	cc
38	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
39	off	off	ADP	_	38 set	compound:prt
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 way	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 way	nmod:poss
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 set	obl
43	back	back	ADV	_	42 way	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	He		woman			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	feel	past						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	weigh	past		woman's geese				vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme goose=Value
4	find	gerund		geese = goose			good property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
5	buy	past	finding	three and the cage				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme
6	put	to-infinitive	finding not said here	geese = goose				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
7	hoist	past	finding not said here	geese = goose		his broad shoulders		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on shoulder=Destination
8	set off	past	He not said here			his way		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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