The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 5
Then his heart sank within him; what should he do in this strange place if nobody could understand anything? he said.
Who acts: heart, nobody · What happens: sink, do, understand, say · To what, where: strange place, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heart, nobody), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sank | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sank | nsubj |
| 4 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | advcl |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sank | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sank | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 understand | mark |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 understand | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 understand | aux |
| 19 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 do | advcl |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 understand | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sank | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | his heart | then | within him = he | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | should | heart | this strange place | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | understand a condition, not said to happen | could | nobody | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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