The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 18
Faster than the wind, faster than thought, faster than longing, faster than hatred rode Petru.
Who acts: hatred · What happens: long, ride · To what, where: 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 (hatred), 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 | Faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 faster | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 wind | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faster | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 faster | punct |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 thought | case |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faster | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 faster | punct |
| 10 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 faster | conj |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 longing | mark |
| 12 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 faster | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 faster | punct |
| 14 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 faster | conj |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 rode | mark |
| 16 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | nsubj |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 faster | advcl |
| 18 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 rode | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 faster | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | gerund | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | ride | past | hatred | Petru | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petru=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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