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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 29

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And on the third day they were still fighting, but as the morning sky began to redden Petru somehow managed--how I cannot tell--to throw the bridle over the head of the tired Welwa.

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**Who acts:** words, Petru, I · **What happens:** fight, begin, redden, manage, not tell, throw · **To what, where:** bridle, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Petru, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:20:29
# text = And on the third day they were still fighting, but as the morning sky began to redden Petru somehow managed--how I cannot tell--to throw the bridle over the head of the tired Welwa.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	redden	redden	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · progressive | words *= word* |  |  |  | still; day |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | words *= word* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the morning sky | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **redden** | to-infinitive | words *= word* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **manage** | past | Petru |  |  |  |  | somehow *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **throw** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the bridle |  | the head of the tired Welwa |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme over head=Destination |

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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.

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**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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