The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 30
Petru thanked her and rode off, and, taking out his treasure box, inquired how matters were going at home.
Who acts: Petru, matters · What happens: thank, ride off, take out, inquire, go · To what, where: Fairy, treasure box, home
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, matters), 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 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rode | cc |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 rode | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taking | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rode | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 taking | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 box | nmod:poss |
| 13 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 box | compound |
| 14 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inquired | punct |
| 16 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 taking | conj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 going | advmod |
| 18 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 going | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 inquired | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 going | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Petru | Fairy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride off | past | Petru not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take out | gerund | Petru's treasure box | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | |||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | matters | home | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at home=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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