The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 42

For three days and three nights they fought, but at last Petru cast the bridle over the head of the second Welwa.

Who acts: flowers · What happens: fight, cast · To what, where: bridle, last Petru

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 (flowers), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fought	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nights	cc
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nights	nummod
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fought	nsubj
8	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cast	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 cast	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 Petru	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Petru	amod
13	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cast	obl
14	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fought	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bridle	det
16	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cast	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cast	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 Welwa	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Welwa	det
22	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 Welwa	amod
23	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 head	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	flowers = flower				day		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cast	past	flowers = flower not said here	the bridle		last Petru		over the head of the second Welwa	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme at petru=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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