The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 23

They confided their histories to each other, and Jem learnt that the goose was the daughter of the wizard Weatherbold, who lived on the island of Gothland.

Who acts: dishes, Jem, goose, daughter · What happens: confide, learn, be, live · To what, where: histories, each, daughter, island · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dishes, Jem, goose, daughter), 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 confided	nsubj
2	confided	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 histories	nmod:poss
4	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 confided	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 confided	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 learnt	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 learnt	cc
10	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 learnt	nsubj
11	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 confided	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 daughter	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goose	det
14	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 daughter	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 daughter	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 daughter	det
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 learnt	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Weatherbold	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Weatherbold	det
20	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Weatherbold	amod
21	Weatherbold	Weatherbold	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 daughter	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lived	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 lived	nsubj
24	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 daughter	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 island	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 island	det
27	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lived	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Gothland	case
29	Gothland	Gothland	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 island	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 confided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	confide speech: other	past	dishes = dish	dishes's histories	each			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent history=Topic to each=Recipient
2	learn	past	Jem					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the goose	the daughter			of the wizard Weatherbold	tree rules
4	live	past	the daughter			the island of Gothland		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location

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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