The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 66

‘Be quiet! this won’t do!’ he said, dismounting hastily, but holding the bridle firmly in his left hand and grasping his sword in his right.

Who acts: Petru, this, holding · What happens: be, not do, say, dismount, hold, grasp · To what, where: bridle, left hand, sword, right · 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, this, holding), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	advcl
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 do	nsubj
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 do	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quiet	ccomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dismounting	punct
14	dismounting	dismount	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
15	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	14 dismounting	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grasping	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 grasping	cc
18	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 grasping	csubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bridle	det
20	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holding	obj
21	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	18 holding	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 hand	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
24	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hand	amod
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holding	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grasping	cc
27	grasping	grasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 dismounting	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sword	nmod:poss
29	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grasping	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 right	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 right	nmod:poss
32	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grasping	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	Petru not said here			quiet property	tree rules
2	not do	future	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Petru				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	dismount	gerund	Petru not said here			hastily property	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	hold	gerund		the bridle	Petru's left hand	firmly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme in hand=Location
6	grasp	gerund	holding	Petru's sword	Petru's right		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus

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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