The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 134
But Petru could see no faded flowers, nor any birds, as he hastened through them to the castle.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: see, fade, hasten · To what, where: faded flowers, castle
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 flowers | det |
| 6 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 flowers | amod |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 birds | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 birds | cc |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 birds | det |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flowers | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hastened | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 hastened | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hastened | nsubj |
| 15 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | conj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hastened | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 castle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hastened | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Petru | no faded flowers nor any birds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fade | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | hasten | past | Petru | the castle | through birds = bird | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to castle=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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