--- title: Dwarf Long Nose--as he was always called--made a practice of doing h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Dwarf Long Nose--as he was always called--made a practice of doing his marketing as much as possible himself, and whenever time allowed went to the market to buy his poultry and fruit. Who acts: Dwarf Long Nose, practice, time, incident. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf Long Nose, practice, time, incident), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:27:138 # text = Dwarf Long Nose--as he was always called--made a practice of doing his marketing as much as possible himself, and whenever time allowed went to the market to buy his poultry and fruit. 1 Dwarf dwarf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 -- -- PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 8 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 9 advmod _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 marketing marketing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obj _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 poultry poultry NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past · passive | | incident | | | | always *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **make** | past | Dwarf Long Nose | a practice | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset practice=Product | | 3 | **do** | gerund | a practice *not said here* | incident's marketing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **allow** | participle | | time *not said here* | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 5 | **go** | past | time | | | the market | | whenever *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **buy** | to-infinitive | time *not said here* | incident's poultry and fruit | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poultry=Theme | | 7 | **market** | | incident | | | | | | nom marketing «act intransitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/139/) - ↑ back to [The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/)