The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 64
The grand duke took a large mouthful and threw up his eyes as he swallowed it.
Who acts: grand duke, duke · What happens: take, throw up, swallow · To what, where: large mouthful, eyes, mouthful
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 (grand duke, duke), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duke | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 duke | amod |
| 3 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mouthful | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mouthful | amod |
| 7 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 threw | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 threw | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 swallowed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swallowed | nsubj |
| 15 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 threw | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swallowed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the grand duke | a large mouthful | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw up | past | the grand duke not said here | duke's eyes | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swallow | past | duke | mouthful | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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