The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 48
But Petru shook his head, and told them what the Goddess of Thunder had said, and about the cloth she had given him.
Who acts: Petru, goddess · What happens: shake, tell, say, give · To what, where: head, Florea, Goddess, Petru · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 shook | cc |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 said | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Goddess | det |
| 12 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Thunder | case |
| 14 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Goddess | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | aux |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 told | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 given | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 given | cc |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 cloth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cloth | det |
| 21 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 given | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 given | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 given | aux |
| 24 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 shook | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 given | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Petru | Petru's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Petru not said here | Florea | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the Goddess of Thunder | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner | |||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect | goddess | Petru | about the cloth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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