The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 111

As soon as Hans recovered himself a little he looked at his rescuer, and saw he was the dwarf he had found seated in the church bell.

Who acts: Hans, dwarf · What happens: recover, look, see, be, find, seat · To what, where: Hans, dwarf, church bell

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, dwarf), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 recovered	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 recovered	mark
4	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 recovered	nsubj
5	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 recovered	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 recovered	obl:unmarked
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recovered	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 rescuer	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 rescuer	nmod:poss
13	rescuer	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recovered	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dwarf	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dwarf	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dwarf	det
20	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 dwarf	acl:relcl
24	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 found	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 bell	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bell	det
27	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bell	compound
28	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seated	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recover	past	Hans	Hans		a little obl:unmarked; soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	look	past	Hans			at Hans's rescuer	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at rescuer=Theme
3	see	past	Hans not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	Hans	the dwarf			tree rules
5	find	past · perfect	Hans	the dwarf not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dwarf=Attribute clause=Theme
6	seat	participle	the dwarf not said here		the church bell		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bell=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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