The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 72

‘How ought I to have set about it?’ asked Petru, half angrily, half sadly.

Who acts: I · What happens: set, ask · To what, where: Petru

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 (I), 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	_	12 asked	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 set	advmod
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 set	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 set	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 set	mark
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 set	aux
7	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 asked	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 set	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 asked	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 angrily	punct
15	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 angrily	advmod
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	12 asked	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sadly	punct
18	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 sadly	advmod
19	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	12 asked	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	ought · perfect	I					about matter	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	past			Petru			angrily, sadly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent petru=Recipient

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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