The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 6
And as Petru looked at her the magic flute dropped by his side, and he held his breath.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: look, drop, hold · To what, where: magic flute, breath
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 looked | mark |
| 3 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flute | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flute | amod |
| 9 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obj |
| 10 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 flute | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 side | nmod:poss |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dropped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 held | nsubj |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 breath | nmod:poss |
| 19 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Petru | the magic flute | at Fairy | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flute=Attribute | |||
| 2 | drop | participle | the magic flute not said here | by Petru's side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | Petru | Petru's breath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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