The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 9
He looked once at the bread and once at the wine, and then at the Fairy of the Dawn, still sleeping on her silken cushions.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: look, sleep · To what, where: silken cushions
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 bread | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bread | det |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wine | cc |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 wine | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 wine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wine | det |
| 11 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bread | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sleeping | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sleeping | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sleeping | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Fairy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fairy | det |
| 17 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 then | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Dawn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dawn | det |
| 20 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fairy | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sleeping | punct |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 sleeping | advmod |
| 23 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 cushions | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 cushions | nmod:poss |
| 26 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cushions | amod |
| 27 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sleeping | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Petru | at the bread and the wine; once property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bread=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | Petru not said here | Fairy's silken cushions | then; still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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