The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 24
And Petru grew so exhausted he could scarcely move his arm.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: grow, exhaust, move · To what, where: arm
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 grew | cc |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 exhausted | advmod |
| 5 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 move | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 move | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 move | aux |
| 8 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 9 move | advmod |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Petru | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | exhaust | participle | Petru not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | move | could | Petru | Petru's arm | scarcely property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=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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