The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 110
The headless dwarfs listened to his words and disappeared as suddenly as they had come.
Who acts: headless dwarfs, words, Hans · What happens: listen, disappear, come, word
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 (headless dwarfs, words, Hans), 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 | 3 dwarfs | det |
| 2 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dwarfs | amod |
| 3 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listened | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 disappeared | cc |
| 9 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 suddenly | advmod |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 disappeared | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 disappeared | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the headless dwarfs | to Hans's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | the headless dwarfs not said here | suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | words = word | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | word | Hans | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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