The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 3
In the middle of this room, which was as large as a church, Petru saw the celebrated well that he had come so far to seek.
Who acts: room, Petru · What happens: be, see, celebrate, come, seek · To what, where: middle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (room, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 large | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 large | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 large | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 large | advmod |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 church | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 church | det |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 large | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 middle | punct |
| 16 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 celebrated | det |
| 19 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 celebrated | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 celebrated | advcl |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 far | advmod |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 come | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 seek | mark |
| 28 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 far | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this room | as a church; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Petru | the middle of this room | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | celebrate | participle | well property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | Petru | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | Petru not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «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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