The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 90

The further went Petru, the more strange and terrible were the sights he saw--lions, tigers, dragons with seven heads, all stretched out in the sun fast asleep.

Who acts: further, Petru · What happens: go, be, see, stretch out · To what, where: sights, sun

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 (further, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 further	det
2	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sights	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 strange	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 strange	det
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 strange	advmod
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Petru	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 terrible	cc
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strange	conj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sights	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sights	det
13	sights	sight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sights	acl:relcl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 lions	punct
17	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sights	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tigers	punct
19	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lions	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dragons	punct
21	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sights	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 heads	case
23	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 heads	nummod
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stretched	punct
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 stretched	advmod
27	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 stretched	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 sun	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sun	det
31	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stretched	obl
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 asleep	advmod
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stretched	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the further			with seven heads	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with head=Beneficiary
2	is a	past	Petru	the sights and lions and tigers and dragons			tree rules
3	see	past	Petru	the sights and lions and tigers and dragons not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
4	stretch out	participle	the further not said here		the sun	all property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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