The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 35
Even while he looked a trembling feeling ran all through him, and a great block broke off and fell upon the ground.
Who acts: rock, trembling feeling, great block · What happens: look, tremble, run, break off, fall · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, trembling feeling, great block), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 looked | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 feeling | det |
| 6 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 feeling | amod |
| 7 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 him | advmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broke | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 broke | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 block | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 block | amod |
| 16 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broke | nsubj |
| 17 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 broke | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broke | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | rock | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | run | past | a trembling feeling | through rock | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | break off | past | a great block | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | a great block not said here | the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=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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