The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 93
The moment Petru was seated on the horse he felt his arm three times as strong as before, and even his heart felt braver.
Who acts: moment, heart · What happens: seat, feel · To what, where: Petru, arm
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 (moment, heart), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux:pass |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 moment | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arm | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | obj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 strong | advmod |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 strong | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 felt | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 felt | cc |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 heart | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 felt | nsubj |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | conj |
| 25 | braver | brave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the moment not said here | Petru | on the horse | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the moment | horse's arm | time | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | horse's heart | brave property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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