The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 11

The fairy opened her eyes slowly and looked at Petru, who lost his head still further; but he just managed to remember his flute, and a few notes of it sent the Fairy to sleep again, and he kissed her thrice.

Who acts: fairy, Petru, few notes · What happens: open, look, lose, manage, remember, send · To what, where: eyes, head, flute, Fairy, thrice

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 (fairy, Petru, few notes), 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 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 opened	obj
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 opened	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Petru	case
10	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lost	nsubj
13	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Petru	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 further	advmod
17	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 lost	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 managed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 managed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 managed	nsubj
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 managed	advmod
22	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 remember	mark
24	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 managed	xcomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 flute	nmod:poss
26	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remember	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sent	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sent	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 notes	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 notes	amod
31	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sent	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 notes	nmod
34	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 managed	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Fairy	det
36	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sent	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 sleep	mark
38	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 sent	advcl
39	again	again	ADV	_	38 sleep	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 kissed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 kissed	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 kissed	nsubj
43	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	parataxis
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 thrice	nmod:poss
45	thrice	thrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 kissed	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the fairy	Fairy's eyes		slowly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
2	look	past	the fairy not said here			at Petru	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at petru=Theme
3	lose	past	Petru	Petru's head		far property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality
4	manage	past	Petru				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	remember	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	Petru's flute			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent flute=Theme
6	send	past	a few notes of flute	the Fairy			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
7	sleep	to-infinitive	a few notes of flute not said here		again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	kiss	past	Petru	Fairy's thrice			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrice=Co-Agent
9	note			flute			nom note «communication 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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