The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 48
But he did not lose his presence of mind, and replied:
Who acts: dwarf · What happens: not lose, reply · To what, where: presence
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 lose | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lose | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lose | advmod |
| 5 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 presence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lose | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presence | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 replied | cc |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lose | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | past · do-support | dwarf | dwarf's presence of mind | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | dwarf not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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