The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 98
The thing was very heavy, and he thought his back would break under the strain.
Who acts: thing, Prince, back · What happens: be, think, break · To what, where: strain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, Prince, back), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thing | det |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 heavy | advmod |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 break | aux |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 strain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 strain | det |
| 16 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the thing | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | would | Prince's back | the strain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under strain=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: «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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