The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 65
‘Now I am done for,’ thought he, and his blows fell thicker and harder in his desperation.
Who acts: ’, blows, Petru · What happens: do, think, fall, blow, despair · To what, where: I, Petru, desperation
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 (’, blows, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 done | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 blows | nmod:poss |
| 14 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | conj |
| 16 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 fell | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 harder | cc |
| 18 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 fell | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 desperation | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 desperation | nmod:poss |
| 21 | desperation | desperation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | I | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | ’ | Petru | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Petru's blows | Petru's desperation | hard, thick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in desperation=Location | |||
| 4 | blow | Petru | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | despair | Petru | nom desperation «state intransitive»: 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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