The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 58

And Petru had hardly drawn a long breath when he felt something approaching from the side, though what he could not tell.

Who acts: Petru · What happens: draw, feel, approach, not tell · To what, where: long breath, something, side · 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), 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	_	5 drawn	cc
2	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drawn	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 drawn	advmod
5	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 breath	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 breath	amod
8	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 felt	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drawn	advcl
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 felt	obj
13	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 something	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 approaching	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 what	mark
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 felt	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 tell	advmod
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 what	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past · perfect	Petru	a long breath		hardly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	feel	past	Petru	something			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	approach	gerund			the side		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location
4	not tell speech: assert	could	Petru				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP 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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