The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 131
Petru saw them as he passed, and thought, ‘If they are so beautiful, why should the Fairy of the Dawn be so ugly?’
Who acts: Petru, notes, Fairy · What happens: see, pass, think, be · To what, where: notes
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, notes, Fairy), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 passed | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 12 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 beautiful | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beautiful | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ugly | punct |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 ugly | advmod |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 ugly | aux |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fairy | det |
| 21 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ugly | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Dawn | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Dawn | det |
| 24 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Fairy | nmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ugly | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 ugly | advmod |
| 27 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beautiful | conj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Petru | notes = note | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | Petru | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | notes = note | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | should | the Fairy of the Dawn | ugly property | tree rules |
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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