The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 59
Petru stopped for a moment when he caught sight of this terrible creature.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: stop, catch, sight · To what, where: sight, terrible creature
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 | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 caught | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | advcl |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 creature | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 creature | det |
| 12 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creature | amod |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Petru | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Petru | sight of this terrible creature | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | this terrible creature | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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