The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 9
Petru’s heart leaped at the sight, for all the way along he had been followed by a crowd of shadowy figures who danced about him from right to left, and from back to front, and Petru, though a brave man, felt now and then a thrill of fear.
Who acts: crowd, shadowy figures, heart · What happens: leap, follow, dance, feel, thrill · To what, where: heart, sight, Petru, right, fear
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 (crowd, shadowy figures, heart), 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 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Petru | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heart | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 way | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 way | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | conj |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 followed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 followed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 followed | aux:pass |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 way | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 crowd | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crowd | det |
| 20 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 figures | case |
| 22 | shadowy | shadowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 figures | amod |
| 23 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crowd | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 danced | nsubj |
| 25 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 figures | acl:relcl |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 danced | obl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 right | case |
| 29 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 danced | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 left | case |
| 31 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 right | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 back | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 back | cc |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 back | case |
| 35 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 front | case |
| 37 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 back | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 felt | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 felt | cc |
| 40 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 felt | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 man | punct |
| 42 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 45 man | mark |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 man | det |
| 44 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 man | amod |
| 45 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Petru | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Petru | punct |
| 47 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 48 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 felt | advmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 thrill | cc |
| 50 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 thrill | advmod |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 thrill | det |
| 52 | thrill | thrill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 now | conj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 fear | case |
| 54 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 thrill | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | Petru's heart and all way and back to front not said here | the sight | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | past · perfect · passive | a crowd of shadowy figures | Petru | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | past | shadowy figures | right to left | about Petru | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about he=Location | |||
| 4 | feel | past | Petru's heart and all way and back to front | now | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | thrill | fear | nom thrill «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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