The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 22
The Welwa gave a neigh like a horse and a howl like a wolf, and threw herself afresh on Petru.
Who acts: Welwa · What happens: give, throw · To what, where: neigh, last, Petru
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 (Welwa), 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 | 2 Welwa | det |
| 2 | Welwa | Welwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 neigh | det |
| 5 | neigh | neigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 howl | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 howl | det |
| 11 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 wolf | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wolf | det |
| 14 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 howl | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 threw | cc |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 threw | obj |
| 19 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 threw | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Petru | case |
| 21 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 threw | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Welwa | a neigh | like a horse and a howl like a wolf | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neigh=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | past | last | Petru | afresh property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on petru=Destination |
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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