The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 8
It was the bread of strength and the wine of youth, and Petru longed for them.
Who acts: bread, Petru · What happens: be, long · To what, where: bread
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 (bread, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bread | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bread | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bread | det |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 strength | case |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bread | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wine | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wine | det |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strength | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 youth | case |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wine | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 longed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 longed | cc |
| 14 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 longed | nsubj |
| 15 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bread | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 longed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bread | the bread | of strength and the wine of youth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | long | past | Petru | for strength | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for they=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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