The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 45

But Petru turned a deaf ear to all they said, and before he had woven his golden crown he felt that something terrible, that he could not see, was coming near him right out of the earth.

Who acts: Petru, flowers · What happens: turn, say, weave, feel, not see, come · To what, where: deaf ear, all, golden crown, earth · 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 (Petru, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 turned	cc
2	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ear	det
5	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ear	amod
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 turned	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 felt	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 felt	cc
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 woven	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 woven	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 woven	aux
16	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 felt	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 crown	nmod:poss
18	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crown	amod
19	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woven	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 felt	nsubj
21	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 terrible	mark
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 terrible	nsubj
24	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 felt	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 see	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 felt	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 coming	punct
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 coming	aux
33	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 see	xcomp
34	near	near	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 coming	obl
36	right	right	ADV	_	33 coming	advmod
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 earth	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 earth	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 earth	det
40	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 coming	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Petru	a deaf ear	all		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to all=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	past	flowers = flower				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	weave	past · perfect	Petru	Petru's golden crown			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Product
4	feel	past	Petru			terrible property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	not see	could	Petru				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	come	past · progressive	Petru not said here		the earth	near Petru; right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out earth=Initial_Location
7	crown		Petru				nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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