The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 64
At dawn on the second, he felt that both his feet were lame.
Who acts: Petru, feet · What happens: feel, be
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, feet), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 dawn | case |
| 2 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | obl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 second | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 second | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 dawn | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dawn | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 lame | mark |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 feet | det |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lame | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lame | cop |
| 14 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Petru | dawn | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Petru's feet | lame property | tree rules |
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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