The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 126

‘Very well,’ said Petru, and he bound the giant’s left hand to his right foot, tied one handkerchief round his mouth to prevent him crying out, and another round his eyes, and led him to the river.

Who acts: Petru, another · What happens: say, bind, tie, prevent, cry out, lead · To what, where: left hand, one handkerchief, Petru, river · Speech: someone speaks here

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, another), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bound	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bound	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bound	nsubj
11	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hand	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 giant	case
15	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bound	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 foot	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 foot	nmod:poss
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 foot	amod
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bound	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tied	punct
22	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 handkerchief	nummod
24	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tied	obj
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 mouth	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouth	nmod:poss
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tied	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 prevent	mark
29	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tied	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 prevent	obj
31	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 prevent	advcl
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 crying	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 led	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 led	cc
35	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	41 led	nsubj
36	round	round	ADP	_	38 eyes	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 eyes	nmod:poss
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 another	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 led	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 led	cc
41	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 led	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 river	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 river	det
45	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 led	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Petru			well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bind	past	Petru	the giant's left hand		to Petru's right foot	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to foot=Co-Patient
3	tie	past	Petru not said here	one handkerchief		round Petru's mouth	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
4	prevent	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	Petru			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
5	cry out speech: express	gerund	Petru not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lead	past	another	Petru	the river		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to river=Destination

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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