The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 117
Petru thanked her gratefully for her gift, mounted his horse, and rode away.
Who acts: Petru, friend · What happens: thank, mount, ride away, gift · To what, where: friend, horse
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, friend), 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 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | gratefully | gratefully | ADV | _ | 2 thanked | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 gift | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gift | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mounted | punct |
| 9 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rode | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rode | cc |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 rode | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Petru | friend | for friend's gift; gratefully property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for gift=Attribute | |||
| 2 | mount | past | Petru not said here | Petru's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride away | past | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gift | friend | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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