The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 149
Petru shook his head and said nothing, for he had lost the power of speech.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: shake, say, lose · To what, where: head, nothing, power · 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), 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 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | conj |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 lost | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 power | det |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 speech | case |
| 16 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 power | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Petru | Petru's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Petru not said here | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | Petru | the power of speech | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
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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