--- title: He had forgotten the warning given him by the Goddess of Thunder, an… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He had forgotten the warning given him by the Goddess of Thunder, and when Costan and Florea drew near with soft and flattering words he jumped straight off his horse, and rushed to embrace them. Who acts: Petru, warning, Costan. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/41/) [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/) / 41 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 41 He had forgotten the warning given him by the Goddess of Thunder, and when Costan and Florea drew near with soft and flattering words he jumped straight off his horse, and rushed to embrace them. **Who acts:** Petru, warning, Costan · **What happens:** forget, give, draw, flatter, jump, rush · **To what, where:** warning, Petru, soft flattering words, horses 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, warning, Costan), 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:pg641:22:41 # text = He had forgotten the warning given him by the Goddess of Thunder, and when Costan and Florea drew near with soft and flattering words he jumped straight off his horse, and rushed to embrace them. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Goddess Goddess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Thunder Thunder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 16 Costan Costan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Florea Florea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 near near ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 flattering flatter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 straight straight ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 off off ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 embrace embrace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | past · perfect | Petru | the warning | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | participle | the warning *not said here* | Petru | | | | by the Goddess of Thunder | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **draw** | past | Costan and Florea | | | | | with soft flattering words; near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **flatter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **jump** | past | Petru | soft flattering words *not said here* | | | | off Petru's horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent word=Theme off horse=Trajectory | | 6 | **rush** | past | Costan and Florea *not said here* | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | | 7 | **embrace** | to-infinitive | Costan and Florea *not said here* | horses *= horse* | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/42/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/)