The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 23
She received it with joy, and after a short rest Petru set forth, for he had no time to lose.
Who acts: goddess, Petru · What happens: receive, set, have, lose · To what, where: flask
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 (goddess, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 received | nsubj |
| 2 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 received | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 received | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 rest | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rest | det |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rest | amod |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 12 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rest | appos |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 received | parataxis |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 set | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 had | case |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 set | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lose | mark |
| 22 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 time | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | goddess | flask | with joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | past | after a short rest | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Petru | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lose | to-infinitive | Petru not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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