The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 79
The next day the same thing happened, but on the third he took courage, and drew a little nearer, playing on his flute all the while.
Who acts: next day, youth · What happens: happen, take, draw, play · To what, where: courage, third, flute
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 third | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 third | det |
| 12 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | parataxis |
| 15 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 little | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 nearer | obl |
| 21 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 drew | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 playing | punct |
| 23 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 drew | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 flute | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 flute | nmod:poss |
| 26 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 playing | obl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 while | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 while | det |
| 29 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 playing | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the next day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | youth | courage | the third | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent courage=Theme on third=Destination | |||
| 3 | draw | past | youth not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | play | gerund | youth not said here | youth's flute | while | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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