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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 83

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He could make all the most difficult dishes, and two hundred different kinds of patties, soup flavoured with every sort of herb--he had learnt it all, and learnt it well and quickly.

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**Who acts:** scent · **What happens:** make, flavour, learn, sort · **To what, where:** difficult dishes, soup, kind, herb

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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 (scent), 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:pg641:26:83
# text = He could make all the most difficult dishes, and two hundred different kinds of patties, soup flavoured with every sort of herb--he had learnt it all, and learnt it well and quickly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	patties	patty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	flavoured	flavour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | scent | all difficult dishes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset dish=Beneficiary kind=Product |
| 2 | **flavour** | participle |  | soup *not said here* |  |  |  | with every sort of herb | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | past · perfect | scent | kind |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **learn** | past | scent *not said here* | kind |  |  |  | well *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | herb |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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