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title: ‘What a long nose he has, and see how his head is stuck in between h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What a long nose he has, and see how his head is stuck in between his shoulders, and only look at his ugly brown hands!’ Who acts: long nose, head. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 103

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‘What a long nose he has, and see how his head is stuck in between his shoulders, and only look at his ugly brown hands!’

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**Who acts:** long nose, head · **What happens:** have, see, be, look · **To what, where:** shoulders · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long nose, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:26:103
# text = ‘What a long nose he has, and see how his head is stuck in between his shoulders, and only look at his ugly brown hands!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | what long nose |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | what long nose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | nose's head |  |  | nose's shoulders |  | stuck *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | what long nose *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at nose's ugly brown hands | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hand=Theme |

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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.

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**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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