The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 7
Quite frightened, the dwarf set down the cage, and the goose gazed at him with sad wise-looking eyes and sighed again.
Who acts: goose · What happens: frighten, gaze, look, sigh · To what, where: dwarf set
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 (goose), 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 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 frightened | advmod |
| 2 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 set | det |
| 5 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | amod |
| 6 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 frightened | obl |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 cage | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cage | det |
| 9 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gazed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gazed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goose | det |
| 13 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gazed | nsubj |
| 14 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 frightened | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gazed | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 18 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looking | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wise | punct |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gazed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sighed | cc |
| 24 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gazed | conj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 sighed | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | participle | the dwarf set down the cage | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | gaze | past | the goose | at twist; with sad looking eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | sigh | past | the goose not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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