The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 40

From this time the little cook was hardly seen except in the kitchen, where, surrounded by his helpers, he gave orders, baked, stewed, flavoured and dished up all manner of dishes.

Who acts: cook · What happens: see, surround, give, bake, stew, flavour · To what, where: little cook, orders, manner

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 (cook), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cook	amod
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux:pass
8	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	9 seen	advmod
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	except	except	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 kitchen	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kitchen	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 surrounded	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 surrounded	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 surrounded	punct
17	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 kitchen	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 helpers	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 helpers	nmod:poss
20	helpers	helper	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 surrounded	obl:agent
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	conj
24	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 baked	punct
26	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 gave	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stewed	punct
28	stewed	stew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 baked	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 flavoured	punct
30	flavoured	flavour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 baked	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dished	cc
32	dished	dish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 flavoured	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 dished	compound:prt
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 manner	det
35	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dished	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 dishes	case
37	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 manner	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		the little cook	time	except the kitchen; hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	surround	participle					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	cook	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
4	bake	participle	cook not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	stew	participle	cook not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	flavour	participle	cook not said here				tree rules
7	dish up	participle	cook not said here	all manner of dishes			tree rules

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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