The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 16
To his surprise, as he was eating them, he felt his nose grow shorter and shorter, and after a while he ventured to feel it with his hand, and even to look in the stream again!
Who acts: mind, nose · What happens: eat, feel, grow, venture, look, surprise · To what, where: nuts, nose
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, nose), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 surprise | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 3 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 felt | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 eating | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 eating | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 eating | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eating | aux |
| 8 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 surprise | acl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 eating | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprise | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nose | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grow | nsubj |
| 15 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 felt | ccomp |
| 16 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 grow | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shorter | cc |
| 18 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 shorter | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ventured | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ventured | cc |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 while | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 while | det |
| 23 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ventured | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ventured | nsubj |
| 25 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 felt | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 feel | mark |
| 27 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ventured | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 feel | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 hand | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feel | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 look | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 look | cc |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 36 look | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 look | mark |
| 36 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 felt | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 stream | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 stream | det |
| 39 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 look | obl |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 look | advmod |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | mind | nuts = nut | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | mind | to mind's surprise | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | mind's nose | short property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | venture | past | mind | while | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | feel | to-infinitive | mind not said here | nose | with mind's hand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | mind not said here | again | in the stream | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stream=Theme | |||
| 7 | surprise | mind | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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