The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 132

Petru knew by experience that he would do well to attend to the horse’s advice, so he made a great effort and tore his mind away from the flowers.

Who acts: Petru, horse · What happens: know, do, attend, make, tore away, mind · To what, where: great effort, mind, flowers

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), 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	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 experience	case
4	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 do	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	advcl
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 do	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 attend	mark
11	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 advice	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 advice	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 horse	case
16	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attend	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 made	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 effort	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 effort	amod
23	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tore	cc
25	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 made	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mind	nmod:poss
27	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tore	obj
28	away	away	ADV	_	25 tore	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 flowers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flowers	det
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tore	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Petru			by experience	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	would	Petru			well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	attend	to-infinitive	Petru not said here			to the horse's advice	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme
4	make	past	Petru	a great effort			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product
5	tore away	past	Petru not said here	horse's mind	the flowers	away property	tree rules
6	mind		horse				nom mind «cognition 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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