The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 83
And besides, it was neither hot nor cold, bright nor dark, but something of them all, and Petru did not find the way a step too long.
Who acts: light, Petru · What happens: be, not find · To what, where: way
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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hot | cc |
| 2 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 7 hot | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 besides | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hot | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hot | cop |
| 6 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 7 hot | advmod |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 cold | cc |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hot | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bright | punct |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hot | conj |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 dark | cc |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bright | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 something | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 something | cc |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 hot | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 something | nmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 find | cc |
| 22 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 find | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 find | advmod |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 something | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 step | det |
| 29 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 30 | too | too | ADV | _ | 31 long | advmod |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 find | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | light | something obl; hot, neither property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | light not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | light not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not find | past · do-support | Petru | the way | long property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Theme step=Attribute |
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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