The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 97
Petru showed no fear, but rolled up his sleeves, that his arms might be free.
Who acts: Petru, arms · What happens: show, roll up, be · To what, where: fear, sleeves
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, arms), 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 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fear | det |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rolled | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 rolled | cc |
| 7 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | parataxis |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 rolled | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rolled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 free | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arms | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 free | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 free | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 free | cop |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rolled | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Petru | no fear | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | roll up | past | Petru's sleeves | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeve=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | might | Petru's arms | free property | tree rules |
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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