The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 117
It was not yesterday, nor the day before, that Petru had fought his first battle, and he bore himself bravely.
Who acts: match, Petru · What happens: not be, fight, bear, battle · To what, where: yesterday, first battle, Petru
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 (match, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 yesterday | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yesterday | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 yesterday | advmod |
| 4 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 day | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yesterday | appos |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 day | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fought | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 fought | mark |
| 12 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fought | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fought | aux |
| 14 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 yesterday | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 battle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 battle | amod |
| 17 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fought | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bore | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bore | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bore | nsubj |
| 21 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fought | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 bore | obj |
| 23 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 21 bore | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yesterday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | match | yesterday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | past · perfect | Petru | Petru's first battle | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | past | Petru | Petru | bravely property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 4 | battle | Petru | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=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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