The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 63
As he entered the head carver was in the act of cutting up the pie and helping the duke and his guests.
Who acts: Jem, head carver · What happens: enter, be, cut up, help · To what, where: act, pie, duke
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, head carver), 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 entered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 carver | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carver | compound |
| 6 | carver | carver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 act | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 act | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 act | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 act | det |
| 10 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 cutting | mark |
| 12 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 act | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 cutting | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pie | det |
| 15 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cutting | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 helping | cc |
| 17 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cutting | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 duke | det |
| 19 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 helping | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 guests | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 guests | nmod:poss |
| 22 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 helping | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Jem | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the head carver | the act | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut up | gerund | the head carver not said here | the pie | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pie=Product | ||||
| 4 | help | gerund | the head carver not said here | the duke | Jem's guests obl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duke=Beneficiary |
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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