The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 24

He stopped a few minutes, as he had promised, with the Goddess of Thunder, and was taking a hasty farewell of her, when she called him back.

Who acts: Petru, goddess · What happens: stop, promise, take, call back · To what, where: hasty farewell, 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 (Petru, goddess), 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 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 minutes	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 minutes	amod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stopped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promised	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 promised	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 promised	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 promised	aux
10	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stopped	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Goddess	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 Goddess	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Goddess	det
14	Goddess	Goddess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 promised	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Thunder	case
16	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Goddess	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 taking	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taking	aux
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stopped	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 farewell	det
22	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 farewell	amod
23	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 farewell	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 called	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	nsubj
29	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	29 called	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Petru			minute		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Petru				with the Goddess of Thunder	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	take	past · progressive	Petru not said here	a hasty farewell of goddess				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme
4	call back speech: assert	past	goddess		Petru			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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