The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 12

Hans was quite content with this proposal, and went straight into the kitchen to begin his work, not knowing that his new master was quite as stingy as his old one.

Who acts: Hans, new master, minister · What happens: be, go, begin, not know, work · To what, where: kitchen, work · 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, new master, minister), 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	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 content	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 content	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 content	advmod
4	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 proposal	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 proposal	det
7	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 content	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 content	conj
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 kitchen	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 kitchen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kitchen	det
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 begin	mark
16	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 work	nmod:poss
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begin	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knowing	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 knowing	advmod
21	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 begin	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 stingy	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 master	nmod:poss
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 master	amod
25	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stingy	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stingy	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 stingy	advmod
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 stingy	advmod
29	stingy	stingy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knowing	ccomp
30	as	as	ADP	_	33 one	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 one	nmod:poss
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 one	amod
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stingy	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hans			with this proposal; content property	tree rules
2	go	past	Hans not said here		the kitchen		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location
3	begin	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	minister's work			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	not know	gerund	Hans not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	minister's new master			as minister's old one; stingy property	tree rules
6	work		minister				nom work «act intransitive»: 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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