The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 103
So Petru dug in his spurs, drew his sword, cut of the head, wiped the blood, and put the sword back in the sheath before the horse’s hoofs touched the ground again.
Who acts: Petru, hoofs · What happens: dig, draw, wipe, put back, touch, spur · To what, where: spurs, sword, blood, sheath, ground
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (Petru, hoofs), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dug | advmod |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 spurs | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dug | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 12 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wiped | punct |
| 17 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 blood | det |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wiped | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dug | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sword | det |
| 24 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 put | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 sheath | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sheath | det |
| 28 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 29 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 34 touched | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 horse | det |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 horse | case |
| 33 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 touched | nsubj |
| 34 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 put | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ground | det |
| 36 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 touched | obj |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 touched | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | Petru | Petru's spurs | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in spur=Location | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | Petru not said here | Petru's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wipe | past | Petru not said here | the blood | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put back | infinitive | Petru not said here | the sword | the sheath | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in sheath=Destination | |||
| 5 | touch | past | the horse's hoofs | the ground | again | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | |||
| 6 | spur | Petru | nom spur «communication transitive»: 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.
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