The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 22

He spent all his spare time talking to her and comforting her, and fed her on all the daintiest dishes.

Who acts: dwarf · What happens: spend, talk, comfort, feed · To what, where: Mimi, daintiest dishes

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 (dwarf), 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 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod:poss
5	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obj
7	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spent	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talking	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 comforting	cc
11	comforting	comfort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 talking	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 comforting	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fed	cc
15	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spent	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fed	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 dishes	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 dishes	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dishes	det
20	daintiest	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 dishes	amod
21	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	spend	past	dwarf				time	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	talk	gerund	dwarf not said here		Mimi			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
3	comfort	gerund	dwarf not said here	Mimi				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	feed	past	dwarf not said here		Mimi	all daintiest dishes		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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