The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 89

As he lay there on his back, he seemed so big that in spite of Petru’s haste he stopped to measure him.

Who acts: Petru · What happens: lie, seem, stop, measure, spite · To what, where: back, spite, Petru, haste

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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 lay	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 big	advmod
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seemed	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 stopped	mark
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 spite	case
15	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stopped	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 haste	case
17	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 haste	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Petru	case
19	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spite	nmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stopped	nsubj
21	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 big	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 measure	mark
23	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 stopped	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 measure	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Petru		Petru's back; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
2	seem	past	Petru			big property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	stop	past	Petru		spite of Petru's haste		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	measure	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	Petru			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value
5	spite			Petru's haste			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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