The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 86

But no time was to be lost, so he shook himself, jumped down from his horse, and, leaving him on the dewy grass, began to play on his flute as he walked along.

Who acts: Petru · What happens: lose, shake, jump down, leave, begin, play · To what, where: Petru, dewy grass, flute

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	_	7 lost	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl:unmarked
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux:pass
5	to	to	PART	_	7 lost	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 lost	aux:pass
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shook	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 shook	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shook	nsubj
11	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 shook	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 jumped	punct
14	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shook	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 jumped	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 horse	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 horse	nmod:poss
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 jumped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 began	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 leaving	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 grass	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
26	dewy	dewy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grass	amod
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leaving	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leaving	punct
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shook	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 play	mark
31	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 flute	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 flute	nmod:poss
34	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 play	obl
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 walked	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 walked	nsubj
37	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 play	advcl
38	along	along	ADV	_	37 walked	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive				time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
2	shake	past	Petru	Petru				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	jump down	past	Petru not said here				from Petru's horse; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory
4	leave	gerund		Petru	the dewy grass			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on grass=Location
5	begin	past	Petru not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	play	to-infinitive	Petru not said here		Petru's flute			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	walk	past	Petru				along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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