The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 131

They drove home, and Hans neglected none of his duties, but put up the horses and gave them their food before going to the church corner, where he found the loose stone, exactly in the place described by the dwarf.

Who acts: men, Hans · What happens: drive, neglect, put up, give, go, find · To what, where: none, horses, food, men, place, loose stone

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 (men, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 drove	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 neglected	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 neglected	cc
6	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 neglected	nsubj
7	neglected	neglect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	conj
8	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 neglected	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 duties	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 duties	nmod:poss
11	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 none	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drove	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horses	det
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	iobj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 food	nmod:poss
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 going	mark
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 gave	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 corner	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 corner	det
27	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 corner	compound
28	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 going	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 found	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 corner	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stone	det
34	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stone	amod
35	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 place	punct
37	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	40 place	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 place	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 place	det
40	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 going	obl
41	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 place	acl
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 dwarf	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 dwarf	det
44	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 described	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	men = man				home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	neglect	past	Hans	none				vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme
3	put up	infinitive	men = man not said here		the horses			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Goal
4	give	past	men = man not said here	men's food	men = man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme
5	go	gerund	men = man not said here			the place	to the church corner	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial_Location
6	find	past	Hans	the loose stone				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
7	describe	participle		the place not said here			by the dwarf	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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