The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 89

Petru did what he was told, and scarcely had the reins touched the pillars when something happened--HOW I have no idea--that made Petru stare with surprise.

Who acts: Petru, reins, something, I, idea · What happens: do, tell, have, touch, happen, make · To what, where: Petru, pillars, idea · 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, reins, something, 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	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 told	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reins	det
12	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 touched	nsubj
13	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pillars	det
15	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 touched	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 happened	advmod
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 happened	nsubj
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	advcl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
20	HOW	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 have	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 happened	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 idea	det
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 idea	acl:relcl
28	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 stare	nsubj
29	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 surprise	case
31	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stare	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Petru			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Petru		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic
3	have	past	Petru not said here		scarcely property	tree rules
4	touch	past	the reins	the pillars		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pillar=Co-Theme
5	happen	past	something			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	present	I	no idea		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
7	make	past	no idea			tree rules
8	stare	infinitive	Petru		with surprise	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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