The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 91
Suddenly he was seized with a desperate thirst, and a burning in his throat.
What happens: seize, burn · To what, where: hermit, throat
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: 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | aux:pass |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 thirst | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thirst | det |
| 7 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thirst | amod |
| 8 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 burning | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 burning | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 burning | det |
| 12 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 seized | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 throat | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 throat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burning | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | hermit | with a desperate thirst; suddenly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | hermit's throat | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in throat=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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