The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 75
Petru felt for a moment as if he was wrapped in a garment of fear; then he shook himself and took heart, and fought as he had never yet fought before.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: feel, wrap, shake, take, fight, not fight · To what, where: Petru, garment, heart
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 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 wrapped | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 wrapped | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 10 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 felt | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 garment | det |
| 13 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrapped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fear | case |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 garment | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 shook | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 shook | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shook | nsubj |
| 19 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 shook | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shook | conj |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fought | cc |
| 26 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shook | conj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 fought | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fought | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fought | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 fought | advmod |
| 31 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 32 fought | advmod |
| 32 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 fought | ccomp |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 32 fought | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Petru | moment | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wrap | past · passive | Petru | a garment of fear | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in garment=Destination | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | Petru | Petru | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 4 | take | past | Petru not said here | heart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fight | past | Petru not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not fight | past · perfect | Petru | yet | before property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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