The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 45
At this awful sight Florea did not wait to give battle.
What happens: not wait, give · To what, where: awful sight, battle
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sight | det |
| 3 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sight | amod |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wait | obl |
| 5 | Florea | Florea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | appos |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wait | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 wait | advmod |
| 8 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wait | xcomp |
| 11 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | this awful sight | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | battle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=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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