The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 114

‘Now walk, so that I may look about, and see what I have never seen before,’ said Petru, rubbing his eyes like one who wakes from sleep, or like him who beholds something so strange that it seems as if...

Who acts: I, Petru, it · What happens: walk, look, see, not see, say, rub · To what, where: eyes, sleep, something · 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 (I, Petru, it), 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	_	3 walk	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 walk	advmod
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
5	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 look	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 so	fixed
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 look	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 look	aux
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	conj
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 look	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seen	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 seen	advmod
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 see	ccomp
19	before	before	ADV	_	18 seen	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rubbing	punct
25	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 said	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rubbing	obj
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 rubbing	obl
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 wakes	nsubj
31	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 one	acl:relcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 sleep	case
33	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wakes	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 beholds	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 beholds	cc
36	like	like	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 beholds	obl
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 beholds	nsubj
39	beholds	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
40	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 beholds	obj
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 strange	advmod
42	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 something	amod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 seems	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 seems	nsubj
45	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 beholds	advcl
46	as	as	ADP	_	45 seems	advmod
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 as	fixed
48	...	...	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	infinitive				now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	may	I				about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not see	present · perfect	I				before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past	Petru					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	rub	gerund	Petru not said here	Petru's eyes			like one	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
7	wake	present			sleep			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	behold	present		something			like Petru	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
9	seem	present	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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