The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 29

And on the third day they were still fighting, but as the morning sky began to redden Petru somehow managed--how I cannot tell--to throw the bridle over the head of the tired Welwa.

Who acts: words, Petru, I · What happens: fight, begin, redden, manage, not tell, throw · To what, where: bridle, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (words, Petru, I), 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	_	9 fighting	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fighting	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fighting	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fighting	aux
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 fighting	advmod
9	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 sky	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sky	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sky	compound
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	obl
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fighting	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 redden	mark
18	redden	redden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 managed	nsubj
20	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	21 managed	advmod
21	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 redden	ccomp
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 tell	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 tell	advmod
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 managed	parataxis
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 throw	mark
30	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bridle	det
32	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obj
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 head	det
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 Welwa	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Welwa	det
38	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Welwa	amod
39	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 head	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fighting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive	words = word			still; day		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	words = word not said here				as the morning sky	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	redden	to-infinitive	words = word not said here					tree rules
4	manage	past	Petru				somehow property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not tell speech: assert	can	I					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	throw	to-infinitive	I not said here	the bridle	the head of the tired Welwa			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme over head=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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