The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 99
Petru wasted no more words, but drew his sword and prepared to throw himself on the bridge.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: waste, draw, prepare, throw · To what, where: more words, sword, Petru, bridge
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 wasted | nsubj |
| 2 | wasted | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 words | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wasted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 drew | cc |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wasted | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 prepared | cc |
| 12 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 drew | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 throw | mark |
| 14 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 prepared | xcomp |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 throw | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 bridge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bridge | det |
| 18 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste | past | Petru | more words | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | Petru's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 3 | prepare | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | throw not said to happen | to-infinitive | Petru | the bridge | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on bridge=Destination |
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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