The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 121

Petru was not deaf to their persuasion, and was just stooping to pick one when the horse sprang to one side.

Who acts: Petru, horse, things · What happens: not be, stoop, pick, spring, persuade · To what, where: one, one side

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, horse, things), 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	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 deaf	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deaf	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 deaf	advmod
4	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 persuasion	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 persuasion	nmod:poss
7	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deaf	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stooping	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stooping	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stooping	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 stooping	advmod
12	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 deaf	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pick	mark
14	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stooping	xcomp
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pick	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 sprang	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprang	nsubj
19	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pick	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 side	nummod
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprang	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 deaf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Petru			to things's persuasion; deaf property	tree rules
2	stoop	past · progressive	Petru not said here				tree rules
3	pick	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	one			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	spring	past	the horse		one side		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination
5	persuade		things = thing				nom persuasion «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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