The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 80
Petru wiped the sweat from his brow with his gauntlet, and with a desperate effort rose to his feet.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: wipe, rise · To what, where: sweat, brow, feet
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 wiped | nsubj |
| 2 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sweat | det |
| 4 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wiped | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 brow | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wiped | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 gauntlet | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 gauntlet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gauntlet | gauntlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brow | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rose | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rose | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 effort | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 effort | det |
| 15 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 effort | amod |
| 16 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rose | obl |
| 17 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wiped | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 feet | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rose | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wiped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | past | Petru | the sweat | Petru's brow with Petru's gauntlet | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sweat=Theme from brow=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | rise | past | Petru not said here | Petru's feet | with a desperate effort | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location |
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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