The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 94

At last he came to a river, but let nobody think for a moment that this river was like other rivers?

Who acts: Petru, nobody, river · What happens: come, let, think, be · To what, where: last

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, nobody, river), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 think	nsubj
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 moment	det
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 think	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 rivers	mark
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rivers	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rivers	cop
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 rivers	case
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rivers	amod
22	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 moment	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Petru	last		to a river	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	let	infinitive	Petru not said here				tree rules
3	think speech: other	infinitive	nobody		moment		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	this river			like other rivers	tree rules

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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