The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 44

But soon they came to a gold wood more lovely far than the other two, and again Petru’s companions pleaded with him to ride through it quickly, and to leave the flowers alone.

Who acts: flowers, companions · What happens: come, plead, ride, leave · To what, where: gold wood, wood, flowers

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, companions), 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	_	4 came	cc
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lovely	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 wood	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	compound
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 lovely	advmod
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 lovely	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 two	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 two	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 two	amod
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 far	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pleaded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pleaded	cc
18	again	again	ADV	_	22 pleaded	advmod
19	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 companions	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Petru	case
21	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pleaded	nsubj
22	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lovely	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pleaded	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 ride	mark
26	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pleaded	advcl
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ride	obl
29	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	26 ride	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 leave	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 leave	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 leave	mark
33	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ride	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 flowers	det
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 leave	obj
36	alone	alone	ADV	_	33 leave	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lovely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	flowers = flower		a gold wood		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
2	plead speech: request	past	Petru's companions			again	with Petru	tree rules
3	ride	to-infinitive	Petru's companions not said here		wood		quickly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through it=Trajectory
4	leave	to-infinitive	Petru's companions not said here	the flowers			alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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