The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 85

Then Petru began to think of the crowns that he wore, and what they had cost him.

Who acts: Petru, women · What happens: begin, think, wear, cost · To what, where: crowns, Petru

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, women), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 crowns	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crowns	det
8	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 think	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wore	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wore	nsubj
11	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crowns	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cost	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cost	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 cost	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cost	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cost	aux
17	cost	cost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 began	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cost	iobj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Petru			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Petru not said here				of the crowns	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wear	past	Petru	the crowns				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source
4	cost	past · perfect	women = woman		Petru			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary what=Value

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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