The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 43

Then Petru repeated hastily what the horse had told him to say, and no sooner had he done so than the goddess opened the window, and in gentle tones she asked him:

Who acts: Petru, horse, goddess · What happens: repeat, tell, say, do, open, ask · To what, where: horse, Petru, window, gentle tones · 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, horse, goddess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 repeated	advmod
2	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 repeated	nsubj
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 told	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 repeated	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 done	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 sooner	det
16	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 done	advmod
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 repeated	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 opened	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 goddess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 goddess	det
23	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 opened	obl
24	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 window	det
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 opened	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 asked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 asked	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 tones	case
30	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tones	amod
31	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 asked	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 asked	nsubj
33	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 repeated	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 asked	iobj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	Petru				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the horse	Petru				tree rules
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the horse not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	do	past · perfect	Petru					soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	open	past	Petru not said here	the window				than the goddess	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	goddess		Petru	gentle tones			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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