The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 83
Petru turned away in anger, and went back to his old nurse.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: turn away, go back · To what, where: anger
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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 anger | case |
| 5 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 nurse | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nurse | amod |
| 13 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | Petru | anger | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go back | past | Petru not said here | to Petru's old nurse result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to nurse=Result |
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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