The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 108

Petru tried this three times, and when he was satisfied that the giant was really in his power he took out a handkerchief, bound the two little fingers of the giant together, drew his sword, and cried for the fourth time, ‘Wake up, my brave man.’

Who acts: Petru, giant · What happens: try, be, take out, draw, cry, wake up · To what, where: power, handkerchief, sword, brave man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, giant), 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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 times	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tried	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 satisfied	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 satisfied	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 satisfied	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 satisfied	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 satisfied	cop
11	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 power	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 power	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 power	cop
16	really	really	ADV	_	19 power	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 power	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 power	nmod:poss
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 satisfied	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 handkerchief	det
24	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fingers	punct
26	bound	bound	ADP	_	30 fingers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fingers	det
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 fingers	nummod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fingers	amod
30	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 took	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 giant	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giant	det
33	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fingers	nmod
34	together	together	ADV	_	33 giant	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 drew	punct
36	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 sword	nmod:poss
38	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drew	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 cried	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 cried	cc
41	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
42	for	for	ADP	_	45 time	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 time	det
44	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 time	amod
45	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cried	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Wake	punct
47	‘	'	PUNCT	_	48 Wake	punct
48	Wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 cried	conj
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 Wake	compound:prt
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 man	punct
51	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 man	nmod:poss
52	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 man	amod
53	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Wake	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Petru			time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Petru				satisfied property	tree rules
3	is	past	the giant		giant's power			tree rules
4	take out	past	Petru	a handkerchief			bound the two little fingers of the giant	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme
5	draw	past	Petru not said here	giant's sword				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
6	cry speech: express	past	Petru not said here			time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	wake up	infinitive	Petru not said here	my brave man				vn other_cos-45.4 «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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