The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 68

At this, Petru told her that he had another task to fulfil at the well of the Fairy of the Dawn, and Venus was still better pleased when she heard his tale.

Who acts: Petru, Venus, kingdom · What happens: tell, have, fulfil, be, hear · To what, where: kingdom, this, task, well, tale · 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, Venus, kingdom), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 told	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 task	det
11	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fulfil	mark
13	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 task	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 well	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 well	det
16	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fulfil	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Fairy	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Fairy	det
19	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 well	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Dawn	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Dawn	det
22	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Fairy	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pleased	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pleased	cc
25	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 pleased	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pleased	cop
27	still	still	ADV	_	29 pleased	advmod
28	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 pleased	advmod
29	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	conj
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 heard	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heard	nsubj
32	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pleased	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tale	nmod:poss
34	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heard	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Petru		kingdom	this			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	Petru	another task					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient
3	fulfil	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	another task not said here		the well of the Fairy of the Dawn			tree rules
4	is	past	Venus				still	pleased, well property	tree rules
5	hear	past	kingdom	Petru's tale					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
6	tell		Petru						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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