The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 79
‘Make one more struggle; it is nearly over now,’ said the horse, seeing that Petru’s strength was waning fast.
Who acts: struggle, strength · What happens: make, be, say, see, wane · To what, where: one more struggle, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (struggle, strength), 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 | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 struggle | nummod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 struggle | amod |
| 5 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 over | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 over | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 over | cop |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 over | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 Make | xcomp |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 over | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seeing | punct |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 waning | mark |
| 20 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 strength | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Petru | case |
| 22 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 waning | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 waning | aux |
| 24 | waning | wane | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 seeing | advcl |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 waning | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | infinitive | one more struggle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset struggle=Product | |||||
| 2 | is | present | struggle | now | nearly, over property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the horse | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | wane | past · progressive | Petru's strength | fast property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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