The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 17
Petru next went to Costan, but did not succeed any better with him.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: go, not succeed · To what, where: Costan
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), 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 | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Costan | case |
| 5 | Costan | Costan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 succeed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 succeed | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 succeed | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 succeed | advmod |
| 10 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | any | any | ADV | _ | 12 better | advmod |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 succeed | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 better | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Petru | Costan | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to costan=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not succeed | past · do-support | Petru not said here | good property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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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