The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 82
The poor dwarf hurried back to his room, and poured out his grief to the goose.
Who acts: poor dwarf · What happens: hurry back, pour out · To what, where: room, grief
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 (poor dwarf), 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 dwarf | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dwarf | amod |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 hurried | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 room | nmod:poss |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 poured | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 poured | cc |
| 11 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurried | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 poured | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grief | nmod:poss |
| 14 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 goose | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goose | det |
| 17 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry back | past | the poor dwarf | dwarf's room | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pour out | past | dwarf's grief | to the goose | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=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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