The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 42

They ate five times a day, and the duke had every reason to be content with the dwarf’s talents, for he saw how pleased his guest looked.

Who acts: orders, duke, guest · What happens: eat, have, be, see, look · To what, where: reason · 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 (orders, duke, guest), 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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obl:unmarked
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 times	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 duke	det
10	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	parataxis
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 reason	det
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 content	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 content	cop
16	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 reason	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 talents	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dwarf	det
19	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 talents	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 dwarf	case
21	talents	talent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 content	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 saw	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 pleased	advmod
27	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 looked	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 guest	nmod:poss
29	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looked	nsubj
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 saw	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	orders = order		time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the duke	every reason			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
3	is	to-infinitive	the duke not said here	every reason not said here		with the dwarf's talents; content property	tree rules
4	see	past	duke				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	look	past	duke's guest				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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