The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 12
Then he stooped and laid his golden wreath upon her forehead, ate a piece of the bread and drank a cupful of the wine of youth, and this he did three times over.
Who acts: Petru, this · What happens: stoop, lay, eat, drink, do · To what, where: golden wreath, forehead, piece, cupful
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, this), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stooped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stooped | nsubj |
| 3 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 laid | cc |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wreath | nmod:poss |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wreath | amod |
| 8 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 forehead | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 11 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 13 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ate | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bread | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bread | det |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drank | cc |
| 20 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ate | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cupful | det |
| 22 | cupful | cupful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drank | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wine | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wine | det |
| 25 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cupful | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 youth | case |
| 27 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wine | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 did | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 did | cc |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 did | nsubj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 did | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 33 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 times | nummod |
| 34 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 over | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | over | over | ADV | _ | 32 did | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | Petru | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | Petru not said here | Petru's golden wreath | Fairy's forehead | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme upon forehead=Destination | |||
| 3 | eat | past | Petru not said here | a piece of the bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drink | past | Petru not said here | a cupful of the wine of youth | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cupful=Patient | ||||
| 5 | do | past | this | over property | vn act-114-1 «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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