More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 94
At last young Lambton felt a mighty tug at his line. "
What happens: feel · To what, where: mighty tug, last young Lambton
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Lambton | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lambton | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lambton | amod |
| 4 | Lambton | Lambton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tug | det |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tug | amod |
| 8 | tug | tug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 line | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 line | nmod:poss |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | a mighty tug | last young Lambton | at fishing's line | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tug=Theme at lambton=Location |
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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