The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 105
‘But we have got to go further still,’ said Petru, after he had taken a farewell glance at his native land.
Who acts: we, Petru · What happens: get, go, say, take · To what, where: farewell glance, native land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, Petru), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 still | advmod |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taken | punct |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 taken | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taken | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 glance | det |
| 20 | farewell | farewell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 glance | amod |
| 21 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 land | nmod:poss |
| 24 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 land | amod |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | we not said here | still | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Petru | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect | Petru | a farewell glance | Petru's native land | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at land=Asset |
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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