The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 147

And standing among the flowers were lovely maidens who called to him in soft voices, till he had to shut his eyes against their spells.

Who acts: lovely maidens, Petru, eyes · What happens: stand, be, call, have, shut, spell · To what, where: lovely maidens, Petru, soft voices, eyes · 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 (lovely maidens, Petru, eyes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 standing	cc
2	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 maidens	obl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 maidens	cop
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 maidens	amod
8	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 standing	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 called	nsubj
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 maidens	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 voices	case
14	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 voices	amod
15	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 called	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 called	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 shut	mark
21	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shut	obj
24	against	against	ADP	_	26 spells	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 spells	nmod:poss
26	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shut	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		lovely maidens			among the flowers	tree rules
3	call	past	lovely maidens		Petru	soft voices		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	have	past	Petru					tree rules
5	shut	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	Petru's eyes			against eyes's spells	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
6	spell		eyes = eye					nom spell «state 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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