The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 63
For a day and a night Petru fought on, without knowing at whom or what he struck.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: fight, know, strike · 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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:1739): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fought | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 night | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 7 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fought | nsubj |
| 8 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 fought | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knowing | punct |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 knowing | mark |
| 12 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fought | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 struck | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 what | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 whom | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 struck | nsubj |
| 18 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knowing | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Petru | day | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | Petru not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | strike | past | Petru | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at whom=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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