The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 17
He passed everything safely by, and was soon seated in his saddle again.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: pass, seat · To what, where: everything, saddle
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 passed | obj |
| 4 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 2 passed | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 passed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seated | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seated | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seated | aux:pass |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 seated | advmod |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 passed | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 saddle | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 seated | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Petru | everything | safely property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | Petru's saddle | again | soon property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: in saddle=Location |
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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