The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 76
Petru thanked her heartily for her advice, and went at once to make inquiries about the horse.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: thank, go, make · To what, where: heartily, inquiries
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 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heartily | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heartily | heartily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thanked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 advice | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 advice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | advcl |
| 15 | inquiries | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 horse | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inquiries | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Petru | Fairy's heartily | for Fairy's advice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent heartily=Theme for advice=Attribute | |||
| 2 | go | past | Petru not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Petru not said here | inquiries | about the horse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product |
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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