The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 62
Jem himself put on his best clothes and went into the dining hall.
Who acts: Jem · What happens: put, go · To what, where: best clothes, dining hall
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 (Jem), 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 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 Jem | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 hall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hall | det |
| 12 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hall | compound |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Jem Jem | Jem's best clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Jem Jem not said here | the dining hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_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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