The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 41
He had forgotten the warning given him by the Goddess of Thunder, and when Costan and Florea drew near with soft and flattering words he jumped straight off his horse, and rushed to embrace them.
Who acts: Petru, warning, Costan · What happens: forget, give, draw, flatter, jump, rush · To what, where: warning, Petru, soft flattering words, horses
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, warning, Costan), 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 | 3 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 warning | det |
| 5 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forgotten | obj |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 warning | acl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Goddess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Goddess | det |
| 10 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Thunder | case |
| 12 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Goddess | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drew | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 drew | advmod |
| 16 | Costan | Costan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Florea | cc |
| 18 | Florea | Florea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Costan | conj |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | parataxis |
| 20 | near | near | ADV | _ | 19 drew | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 words | case |
| 22 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flattering | cc |
| 24 | flattering | flatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 words | amod |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drew | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 jumped | nsubj |
| 27 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 words | acl:relcl |
| 28 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 31 horse | advmod |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 horse | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 horse | nmod:poss |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jumped | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rushed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 rushed | cc |
| 34 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drew | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 embrace | mark |
| 36 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 rushed | xcomp |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 embrace | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | Petru | the warning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the warning not said here | Petru | by the Goddess of Thunder | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | draw | past | Costan and Florea | with soft flattering words; near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | flatter | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | jump | past | Petru | soft flattering words not said here | off Petru's horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent word=Theme off horse=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | rush | past | Costan and Florea not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 7 | embrace | to-infinitive | Costan and Florea not said here | horses = horse | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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