The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 16
And all this had been caused by the three kisses Petru had given the Fairy of the Dawn.
Who acts: three kisses · What happens: cause, give · To what, where: this, Petru
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 (three kisses), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 caused | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 caused | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 caused | aux:pass |
| 6 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 kisses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kisses | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 kisses | nummod |
| 10 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caused | obl |
| 11 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 kisses | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairy | det |
| 15 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Dawn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Dawn | det |
| 18 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fairy | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past · perfect · passive | the three kisses | this | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | the three kisses not said here | Petru | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient fairy=Theme |
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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