The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 88
‘Because the herb only grows near the roots of chestnut trees,’ replied Mimi; ‘so let us lose no time in finding it.
Who acts: herb, us · What happens: grow, reply, let, lose, find · To what, where: roots, Mimi, us, herb
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 (herb, us), 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 | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 grows | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 herb | det |
| 4 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 grows | advmod |
| 6 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 replied | advcl |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 roots | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roots | det |
| 9 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grows | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 11 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trees | compound |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 roots | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grows | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 grows | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Mimi | Mimi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 let | advmod |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 replied | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lose | obj |
| 25 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 26 finding | mark |
| 26 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 lose | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 finding | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the herb | the roots of chestnut trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near root=Location | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Mimi | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mimi=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lose | infinitive | us not said here | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | find | gerund | us not said here | herb | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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