The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 56

As he sat there lost in thought the goose Mimi, who was left free to walk about, came up to him and asked what was the matter?

Who acts: dwarf · What happens: sit, lose, think, leave, walk, come up · To what, where: goose, dwarf, matter · 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 (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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 sat	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	xcomp
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 thought	mark
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goose	det
9	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	obj
10	Mimi	Mimi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 goose	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 left	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux:pass
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 goose	acl
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 left	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 walk	mark
17	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 free	advcl
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 walk	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 asked	cc
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 matter	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 matter	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 matter	det
29	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asked	ccomp
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	dwarf			there		tree rules
2	lose	participle	dwarf not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	dwarf not said here	the goose				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot goose=Theme
4	leave	past · passive		the goose			free property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	walk	to-infinitive					about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come up	past	dwarf not said here		dwarf			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
7	ask speech: ask	past	dwarf not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past		the matter				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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