The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 33
So Petru tied the Welwa to his own horse and rode on.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: tie, ride on · To what, where: Welwa
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 tied | advmod |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Welwa | det |
| 5 | Welwa | Welwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 rode | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | Petru | the Welwa | to Petru's own horse | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent welwa=Patient to horse=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | ride on | past | Petru not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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