The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 154
So Petru told her all that had happened to him, and why he was there, and then took farewell of her, as he had no time to lose.
Who acts: Petru, that · What happens: tell, happen, be, take, have, lose · To what, where: Jupiter, Petru, farewell · 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, that), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 happened | det:predet |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 there | cc |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 there | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 there | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | cop |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 happened | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 took | advmod |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | parataxis |
| 21 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 farewell | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 lose | mark |
| 31 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 time | acl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Petru | Jupiter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | Petru | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Petru | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | farewell of Jupiter | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Petru | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | lose | to-infinitive | Petru not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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