The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 1

Petru went up the stairs and walked quickly through eight-and-forty rooms, hung with silken stuffs, and all empty.

Who acts: Petru · What happens: go up, walk, hang · To what, where: stairs, forty rooms

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. 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	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walked	cc
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 walked	advmod
9	through	through	ADP	_	15 rooms	case
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 forty	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 eight	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eight	cc
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 eight	punct
14	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 rooms	nummod
15	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
17	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 rooms	acl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 stuffs	case
19	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stuffs	amod
20	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hung	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 empty	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 empty	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 empty	det
24	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Petru	the stairs			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	walk	past	Petru not said here		forty rooms	quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory
3	hang	participle		forty rooms not said here		with silken stuffs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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