The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 105
Hans thought his last hour was come, when just as the fight was at the hottest another little dwarf arrived on the scene.
Who acts: Hans, fight · What happens: think, come, be, arrive · To what, where: last hour, hottest little dwarf, scene · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, fight), 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 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hour | amod |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux:pass |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dwarf | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 dwarf | advmod |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 fight | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 fight | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fight | det |
| 13 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dwarf | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dwarf | cop |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 dwarf | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dwarf | det |
| 17 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 dwarf | amod |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 dwarf | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dwarf | amod |
| 20 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 21 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 dwarf | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 scene | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 scene | det |
| 24 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Hans | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past · passive | Hans's last hour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the fight | at the hottest little dwarf | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | arrive | participle | the hottest little dwarf not said here | the scene | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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