The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 143

The very iron of the horse’s shoes began to melt, but Petru gave no heed.

Who acts: iron, Petru · What happens: begin, melt, give · To what, where: heed

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 (iron, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 iron	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 iron	advmod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 shoes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoes	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 horse	case
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 iron	nmod
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 melt	mark
11	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
14	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 heed	det
17	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	the iron of the horse's shoes		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	melt	to-infinitive	the iron of the horse's shoes not said here		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	give	past	Petru	no heed	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme

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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