The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 28

But the Welwa had ceased to throw herself upon him, and began to deliver her blows cautiously, as if she had no longer power to strike.

Who acts: Welwa, battle · What happens: cease, throw, begin, deliver, blow, have · To what, where: battle, power

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, battle), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 ceased	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Welwa	det
3	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ceased	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ceased	aux
5	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 blows	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 throw	mark
7	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ceased	xcomp
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 throw	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 throw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ceased	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 deliver	mark
15	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 deliver	obj
17	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	17 blows	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blows	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blows	advcl
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 longer	advmod
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 power	advmod
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 strike	mark
28	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 power	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 blows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cease	past · perfect	the Welwa			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	throw	to-infinitive	the Welwa not said here	battle	upon Petru	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon he=Destination
3	begin	past	the Welwa not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	deliver	to-infinitive	the Welwa not said here	battle		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	blow	present			cautiously property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	have	past	battle	power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
7	strike	to-infinitive	battle not said here	power not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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