The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 70
‘Dog of a cook,’ he shouted; ‘how dare you serve me so?
Who acts: Dog, you · What happens: shout, serve · To what, where: me
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 (Dog, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dog | punct |
| 2 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cook | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cook | det |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dog | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dog | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dog | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 serve | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 serve | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 serve | advmod |
| 13 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serve | compound |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 serve | nsubj |
| 15 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shouted | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 serve | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 serve | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Dog of a cook | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | serve | present | you | me | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute |
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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