The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 96

The tree cast a wide shadow, and it was almost dark beneath it, but suddenly the goose stood still, flapped her wings with joy, and plucked something, which she held out to her astonished friend, saying: ‘There it is, and there is more growing here, so you will have no lack of it.’

Who acts: tree, shadow, goose, more, you · What happens: cast, be, stand, flap, pluck, hold out · To what, where: wide shadow, wings, something, lack, front · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tree, shadow, goose, more), 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	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cast	nsubj
3	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shadow	det
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shadow	amod
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cast	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dark	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dark	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dark	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dark	cop
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 dark	advmod
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cast	conj
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dark	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 stood	cc
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 stood	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 goose	det
19	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cast	conj
21	still	still	ADV	_	20 stood	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flapped	punct
23	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wings	nmod:poss
25	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flapped	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 joy	case
27	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flapped	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 plucked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 plucked	cc
30	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cast	conj
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 plucked	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 held	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 held	nsubj
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 held	nsubj
35	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 something	acl:relcl
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 held	compound:prt
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 friend	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 friend	nmod:poss
39	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 friend	amod
40	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 held	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 saying	punct
42	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 plucked	advcl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 is	punct
44	‘	'	PUNCT	_	47 is	punct
45	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 is	expl
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 is	nsubj
47	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cast	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 is	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 is	cc
50	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	51 is	expl
51	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 is	parataxis
52	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	51 is	nsubj
53	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 more	acl
54	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 growing	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 have	punct
56	so	so	ADV	_	59 have	advmod
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 have	nsubj
58	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 have	aux
59	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cast	parataxis
60	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	61 lack	det
61	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 have	obj
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 it	case
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 lack	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	59 have	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	59 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	past	the tree	a wide shadow				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product
2	is	past	shadow				beneath front; almost, dark property	tree rules
3	stand	past	the goose			still	suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	flap	past	the goose not said here	life's wings			with joy	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
5	pluck	past	the tree not said here	something				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
6	hold out	past					to life's astonished friend	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	gerund	the tree not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	be	present	shadow		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	be	present	more		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	grow	gerund			here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	have	future	you	no lack of front				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lack=Patient
12	lack			front				nom lack «state transitive»: of=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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