The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 47

‘Good evening,’ said Petru as he entered the house, and, seating himself near the fire, listened comfortably to whatever the goddess might choose to talk about, which was for the most part the wickedness of men, with whom she was evidently very angry.

Who acts: Petru, goddess · What happens: say, enter, seat, listen, choose, talk · To what, where: house, Petru, fire · 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, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 evening	amod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 evening	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	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 entered	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 entered	nsubj
10	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 listened	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 listened	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 and	punct
16	seating	seat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 listened	advcl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 seating	obj
18	near	near	ADP	_	20 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seating	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seating	punct
22	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 choose	advcl
23	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	22 listened	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 whatever	case
25	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 choose	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 goddess	det
27	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 choose	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 choose	aux
29	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 talk	mark
31	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 choose	xcomp
32	about	about	SCONJ	_	39 part	mark
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 part	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 part	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 part	cop
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 part	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 part	det
38	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 part	amod
39	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 talk	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wickedness	det
41	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 whom	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 men	case
43	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 wickedness	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 whom	punct
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 whom	case
46	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 part	nmod
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 angry	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 angry	cop
49	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	51 angry	advmod
50	very	very	ADV	_	51 angry	advmod
51	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 whom	parataxis
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Petru				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	enter	past	Petru	the house			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
3	seat	gerund		Petru	the fire		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
4	listen	past	the goddess not said here			comfortably property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	choose	might	the goddess			to whatever	tree rules
6	talk	to-infinitive	the goddess not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past				for the most part	tree rules
8	is	past	goddess			angry, evidently 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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