The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 30

With a beating heart he flung it to the ground, wishing with all his might that it should turn into a bridge, and fearing that, after all, this might prove beyond its power.

Who acts: city, rod, this · What happens: fling, wish, turn, fear, prove · To what, where: rod, ground, bridge, that

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, rod, this), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 heart	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 heart	det
3	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heart	compound
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flung	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flung	nsubj
6	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flung	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flung	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wishing	punct
12	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 flung	advcl
13	with	with	SCONJ	_	20 turn	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 turn	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 turn	nmod:poss
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 turn	aux
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 turn	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turn	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 turn	aux
20	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wishing	advcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 bridge	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bridge	det
23	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turn	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fearing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fearing	cc
26	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 flung	advcl
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 fearing	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 prove	punct
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 prove	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 all	punct
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 prove	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 prove	aux
34	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 flung	parataxis
35	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	37 power	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 power	nmod:poss
37	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 prove	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past	city	rod	the ground		with a beating heart	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ground=Destination
2	wish	gerund	city not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	turn	should	rod		a bridge			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bridge=Trajectory
4	fear	gerund	city not said here	that				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	prove	might	this			after all	beyond rod's power	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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