The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 82
That light was behind the palace of the Fairy of the Dawn, and it took Petru two days and nights through flowery meadows to reach it.
Who acts: light, it · What happens: be, take, reach · To what, where: palace, Petru, flowery meadows, light
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 (light, it), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 palace | cop |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Fairy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fairy | det |
| 9 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Dawn | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dawn | det |
| 12 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fairy | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 palace | conj |
| 17 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 nights | cc |
| 21 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 days | conj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 meadows | case |
| 23 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 meadows | amod |
| 24 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 reach | mark |
| 26 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 took | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reach | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that light | the palace | of the Fairy of the Dawn | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | it | Petru | flowery meadows | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument petru=Destination | ||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | light | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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