The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 76
Again he paused, but he felt as if something was driving him to enter, and with a beating heart he stepped in.
Who acts: child, something · What happens: pause, feel, drive, enter, step in · To what, where: child
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, something), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 paused | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 felt | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 driving | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 driving | mark |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 driving | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 driving | aux |
| 12 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 felt | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 driving | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 enter | mark |
| 15 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 driving | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stepped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stepped | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 heart | det |
| 20 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heart | compound |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stepped | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stepped | nsubj |
| 23 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 stepped | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | child | again | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | child | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | drive | past · progressive | something | child | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | enter | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | step in | past | child | with a beating heart | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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