The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 124
Hans found that his limbs no longer pained him, and lay for some time thinking of the hidden treasure.
Who acts: Hans, limbs, time · What happens: find, pain, lay, think · To what, where: rest · 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, limbs, time), 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 | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 pained | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pained | nsubj |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 pained | advmod |
| 8 | pained | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pained | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 time | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 treasure | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 treasure | det |
| 19 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 treasure | amod |
| 20 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thinking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Hans | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pain | past | rest's limbs | rest | long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | Hans not said here | time | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | some time not said here | of the hidden treasure | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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