The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 98
So the young man stepped bravely into the lake, and felt himself sinking, sinking, till he reached firm ground at last.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: step, feel, sink, reach · To what, where: lake, man, firm ground, last
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stepped | parataxis |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 felt | obj |
| 14 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sinking | punct |
| 16 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sinking | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 reached | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 felt | conj |
| 21 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ground | amod |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reached | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the young man | the lake | bravely property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into lake=Destination | |||
| 2 | feel | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sink | gerund | man not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sink | gerund | man not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | reach | past | man | firm ground | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent ground=Theme at last=Asset |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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