The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 67
The prince took several small pieces, tasted and examined carefully, and then said with a mysterious and sarcastic smile:
Who acts: prince · What happens: take, taste, examine, say · To what, where: several small pieces · 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 (prince), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pieces | amod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pieces | amod |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tasted | punct |
| 8 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pieces | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 examined | cc |
| 10 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tasted | conj |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 examined | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 said | advmod |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 smile | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 smile | det |
| 18 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 smile | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sarcastic | cc |
| 20 | sarcastic | sarcastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mysterious | conj |
| 21 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the prince | several small pieces | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | taste | participle | several small pieces not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | examine | participle | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | then | with a mysterious smile | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner |
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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