The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 27
And Petru went on fighting, though he barely had strength to move his arm.
Who acts: Petru, strength · What happens: go, fight, have, move · To what, where: strength, 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, strength), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 fighting | mark |
| 5 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 7 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 9 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 10 had | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 move | mark |
| 13 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arm | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 move | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Petru | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | Petru not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Petru | strength | barely property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | move | to-infinitive | strength not said here | Petru's arm | 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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