The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 7
‘Not yet,’ replied Petru stoutly, though cold shivers were running down his back.
Who acts: Petru, cold shivers · What happens: reply, run down · To what, where: back
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, cold shivers), 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 | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 yet | advmod |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | stoutly | stoutly | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 running | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 running | mark |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shivers | amod |
| 12 | shivers | shiver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 running | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 running | aux |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 replied | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 running | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 running | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Petru | yet | stoutly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | run down | past · progressive | cold shivers | Petru's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Trajectory |
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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