The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 44
When, however, the servants all gathered round the table for dinner, Hans at last made his appearance stretching himself and yawning.
Who acts: servants, Hans · What happens: gather, make, stretch, yawn · To what, where: appearance, servant
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 (servants, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 however | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 18 made | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 servants | det |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathered | nsubj |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 gathered | advmod |
| 8 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 however | acl:relcl |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gathered | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gathered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hans | punct |
| 15 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 made | nsubj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Hans | nmod |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 20 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 made | advcl |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 stretching | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 yawning | cc |
| 24 | yawning | yawn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 stretching | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the servants | round the table; for dinner; all property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dinner=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Hans at last | servant's appearance | however property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product | |||
| 3 | stretch | gerund | Hans at last not said here | servant | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | yawn | gerund | Hans at last not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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