The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 17

Petru planted himself firmly in his stirrups, and began to lay about him with his sword, but could feel nothing.

Who acts: Petru · What happens: plant, begin, lay, feel · To what, where: Petru, stirrups, nothing

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 planted	nsubj
2	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 planted	obj
4	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	2 planted	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stirrups	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stirrups	nmod:poss
7	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 planted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 planted	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lay	mark
12	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 sword	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sword	nmod:poss
17	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feel	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 feel	cc
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 feel	aux
21	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 planted	conj
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 feel	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plant	past	Petru	Petru	Petru's stirrups	firmly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in stirrup=Destination
2	begin	past	Petru not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lay	to-infinitive	Petru not said here			about Petru; with Petru's sword	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination
4	feel	could	Petru not said here	nothing			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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