--- title: The fairy opened her eyes slowly and looked at Petru, who lost his h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The fairy opened her eyes slowly and looked at Petru, who lost his head still further; but he just managed to remember his flute, and a few notes of it sent the Fairy to sleep again, and he kissed her thrice. Who acts: fairy, Petru, few notes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/) / 11 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 11 The fairy opened her eyes slowly and looked at Petru, who lost his head still further; but he just managed to remember his flute, and a few notes of it sent the Fairy to sleep again, and he kissed her thrice. **Who acts:** fairy, Petru, few notes · **What happens:** open, look, lose, manage, remember, send · **To what, where:** eyes, head, flute, Fairy, thrice 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 (fairy, Petru, few notes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:22:11 # text = The fairy opened her eyes slowly and looked at Petru, who lost his head still further; but he just managed to remember his flute, and a few notes of it sent the Fairy to sleep again, and he kissed her thrice. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Petru Petru PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 thrice thrice NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the fairy | Fairy's eyes | | | | slowly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | the fairy *not said here* | | | | | at Petru | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at petru=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | past | Petru | Petru's head | | | | far *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | | 4 | **manage** | past | Petru | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **remember** | to-infinitive | Petru *not said here* | Petru's flute | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent flute=Theme | | 6 | **send** | past | a few notes of flute | the Fairy | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | | 7 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | a few notes of flute *not said here* | | | | again | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **kiss** | past | Petru | Fairy's thrice | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrice=Co-Agent | | 9 | **note** | | | flute | | | | | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/12/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/)