The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 93
Suddenly the dwarf noticed a big old tree standing alone on the other side of the lake.
Who acts: dwarf, big old tree · What happens: notice, stand · To what, where: big old tree, other side
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 (dwarf, big old tree), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 noticed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | obj |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 tree | acl |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 standing | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the dwarf | a big old tree | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a big old tree not said here | the other side of the lake | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
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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