The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 48
But Petru agreed with her in everything, as he had been taught was only polite.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: agree, teach, be · To what, where: everything, Petru
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 | _ | 3 agreed | cc |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 everything | case |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 agreed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taught | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 taught | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taught | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 taught | aux:pass |
| 13 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 polite | advcl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 polite | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 polite | advmod |
| 16 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Petru | everything | with goddess | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Petru | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | polite 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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