The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 73
I made the pasty according to the best rules; nothing has been left out.
Who acts: I · What happens: make, accord, leave out · To what, where: pasty, best rules, nothing
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pasty | det |
| 4 | pasty | pasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 according | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rules | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 rules | amod |
| 9 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 according | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 left | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 left | aux:pass |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 made | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 left | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | I | the pasty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasty=Product | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | I not said here | the best rules | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave out | present · perfect · passive | nothing | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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