The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 12

The words were hardly spoken, and Petru had no time even to unbuckle the bridle, when the Welwa herself stood before him; and Petru could not bear to look at her, so horrible was she.

Who acts: Petru, Welwa · What happens: speak, have, unbuckle, stand, not bear, look · To what, where: words, bridle, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Welwa), 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 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spoken	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	aux:pass
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 spoken	advmod
5	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 unbuckle	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 unbuckle	mark
14	unbuckle	unbuckle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bridle	det
16	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 unbuckle	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 stood	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Welwa	det
20	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 stood	nsubj
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 Welwa	appos
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bridle	acl
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stood	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 bear	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bear	cc
27	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 bear	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 bear	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 bear	advmod
30	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spoken	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 look	mark
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 bear	xcomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 look	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 horrible	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 horrible	advmod
37	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spoken	conj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 she	cop
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 horrible	nsubj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · passive		the words		hardly property	tree rules
2	have	past	Petru		time		tree rules
3	unbuckle	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	the bridle			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Patient
4	stand	past	the Welwa		before Petru		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
5	not bear	could	Petru				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	look	to-infinitive	Petru not said here			at earth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
7	is a	past		earth			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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