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The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 127

Once they had reached the bank he stretched one leg over to the other side, and, catching up Petru in the palm of his hand, set him down on the further shore.

Who acts: eyes, Petru · What happens: reach, stretch, catch up, set down · To what, where: bank, other side, Petru, palm, further shore

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 (eyes, 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

marknsubjauxadvcldetobjnsubjnummodnsubjccompcasedetamodoblpunctccpunctconjcompound:prtobjcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctconjobjcompound:prtcasedetamodoblpunctrootOnceSCONJtheyPRONhadAUXreachedVERBtheDETbankNOUNhePRONstretchedVERBoneNUMlegNOUNoverADVtoADPtheDETotherADJsideNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTcatchingVERBupADPPetruPROPNinADPtheDETpalmNOUNofADPhisPRONhandNOUN,PUNCTsetVERBhimPRONdownADPonADPtheDETfurtherADJshoreNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnceonceSCONJ_4 reachedmark
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 reachednsubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 reachedaux
4reachedreachVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 stretchedadvcl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 bankdet
6bankbankNOUNNumber=Sing4 reachedobj
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 stretchednsubj
8stretchedstretchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card10 legnummod
10leglegNOUNNumber=Sing11 overnsubj
11overoverADV_8 stretchedccomp
12totoADP_15 sidecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 sidedet
14otherotherADJDegree=Pos15 sideamod
15sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing8 stretchedobl
16,,PUNCT_19 catchingpunct
17andandCCONJ_19 catchingcc
18,,PUNCT_19 catchingpunct
19catchingcatchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 stretchedconj
20upupADP_19 catchingcompound:prt
21PetruPetruPROPNNumber=Sing19 catchingobj
22ininADP_24 palmcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 palmdet
24palmpalmNOUNNumber=Sing19 catchingobl
25ofofADP_27 handcase
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 handnmod:poss
27handhandNOUNNumber=Sing24 palmnmod
28,,PUNCT_29 setpunct
29setsetVERBVerbForm=Inf19 catchingconj
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 setobj
31downdownADP_29 setcompound:prt
32ononADP_35 shorecase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 shoredet
34furtherfurtherADJDegree=Pos35 shoreamod
35shoreshoreNOUNNumber=Sing29 setobl
36..PUNCT_8 stretchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpast · perfecteyes = eyethe bankvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme
2stretchpastPetruthe other sidevn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Location
3catch upgerundPetru not said herePetruthe palm of Petru's handvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petru=Theme
4set downinfinitivePetru not said herePetruthe further shorevn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shore=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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