More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 24

So at last he could hold back no longer, and he lifted up the cover a tiny bit; but he couldn't see anything.

Who acts: harm · What happens: hold back, lift up, not see · To what, where: cover, anything

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 hold	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 So	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hold	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hold	aux
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 hold	advmod
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 longer	advmod
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 hold	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lifted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lifted	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lifted	nsubj
13	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hold	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 lifted	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cover	det
16	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lifted	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bit	det
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bit	amod
19	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lifted	obl:unmarked
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 see	advmod
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hold	conj
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 see	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold back	could	harm		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lift up	past	harm	the cover	a tiny bit obl:unmarked	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme
3	not see	could	harm	anything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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