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description: No one thought of laughing at his appearance now; he was known as the duke’s special body cook, and every goose-woman felt honoured if his nose turned her way. Who acts: one thought, goose woman, nose. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, with
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 140

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No one thought of laughing at his appearance now; he was known as the duke’s special body cook, and every goose-woman felt honoured if his nose turned her way.

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**Who acts:** one thought, goose woman, nose · **What happens:** laugh, know, feel, honour, turn · **To what, where:** appearance, one thought, way

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one thought, goose woman, nose), 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:pg641:27:140
# text = No one thought of laughing at his appearance now; he was known as the duke’s special body cook, and every goose-woman felt honoured if his nose turned her way.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
24	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	honoured	honour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund | no one thought *not said here* |  |  | incident's appearance | now |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | no one thought |  |  |  | as the duke's special body cook | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as cook=Attribute |
| 3 | **feel** | past | every goose woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **honour** | participle | every goose woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | incident's nose | woman's way |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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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