The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 86

‘Oh, yes!’ cried Long Nose, much relieved; ‘near the lake--only a couple of hundred yards from the palace--is a large clump of them.

What happens: cry, be · To what, where: Long Nose, lake, large clump

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: 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	_	7 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Nose	amod
9	Nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 relieved	punct
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 relieved	advmod
12	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Nose	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 lake	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 lake	punct
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 lake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 couple	punct
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 couple	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 couple	det
21	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lake	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 yards	case
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 yards	nummod
24	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 couple	nmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 palace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palace	det
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 yards	nmod
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 clump	punct
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 clump	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 clump	det
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 clump	amod
32	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lake	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 clump	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		Long Nose		the lake and a large clump			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Topic
2	is a	present		a large clump				of yards = yard	tree rules

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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