The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 69
So Petru bade her good-night, put the flute in its case, and laid himself down in the lowest chamber to sleep.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: bade, put, lay down, sleep · To what, where: flute, case, Petru, lowest chamber
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 bade | advmod |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 night | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bade | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bade | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flute | det |
| 11 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 case | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 case | nmod:poss |
| 14 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 laid | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 laid | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 chamber | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chamber | det |
| 22 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 chamber | amod |
| 23 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sleep | mark |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 laid | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Petru | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Petru not said here | the flute | flute's case | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme in case=Destination | |||
| 3 | lay down | past | Petru not said here | Petru | the lowest chamber | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in chamber=Destination | |||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | Petru not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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