The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 21

Petru returned to his brothers, and told them what had befallen him; but not long after it struck him that his father’s left eye seemed to weep less, and the right to laugh more.

Who acts: Petru, business · What happens: return, tell, befall, strike, leave, seem · To what, where: ears, Petru, father, more · 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 (Petru, business), 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 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 brothers	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brothers	nmod:poss
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 returned	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 befallen	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 befallen	aux
12	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 told	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 befallen	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 struck	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 struck	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 struck	advmod
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 struck	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 struck	nsubj
20	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 struck	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 left	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 left	nsubj
25	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 left	aux:pass
26	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 seemed	advcl
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 left	obj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 struck	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 weep	mark
30	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 seemed	xcomp
31	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 weep	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 right	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 right	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 right	det
35	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 laugh	mark
37	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 right	acl
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 laugh	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	Petru			to Petru's brothers result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to brother=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	Petru not said here		ears = ear		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	befall	past · perfect · passive		Petru			tree rules
4	strike	past	business	Petru		the right obl; long property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
5	leave	present · passive		Petru's father			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme eye=Attribute
6	seem	past					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	weep	to-infinitive				less property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	laugh	to-infinitive	business not said here	more			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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