The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 19
Then he picked up some cards, and played with the unknown men as if he had known them all his life.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: pick up, play, know · To what, where: cards, Hans
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 picked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 cards | det |
| 6 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 played | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 played | cc |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 played | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 known | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 known | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 known | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 known | aux |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 played | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 known | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 life | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 known | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Hans | some cards | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Topic | |||
| 2 | play | past | Hans not said here | with the unknown men | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | past · perfect · passive | Hans | Hans's life obl:unmarked | tree rules |
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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