The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 70
But he settled himself in his saddle, grasped his sword, and waited.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: settle, grasp, wait · To what, where: Petru, saddle, sword
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 settled | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 settled | nsubj |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 settled | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 saddle | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grasped | punct |
| 9 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 settled | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sword | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grasped | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 waited | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 waited | cc |
| 14 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 settled | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | Petru | Petru | Petru's saddle | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in saddle=Location | |||
| 2 | grasp | past | Petru not said here | Petru's sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | Petru not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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