The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 54

He had known of such things before, and a cold shiver ran through him; but with an effort he kept silent from further questioning, and only said:

Who acts: cold shiver, portrait · What happens: know, run, keep, say · To what, where: portrait, further questioning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold shiver, portrait), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 known	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 known	aux
3	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 things	case
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 known	obl
7	before	before	ADV	_	3 known	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shiver	det
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shiver	amod
12	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 known	parataxis
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ran	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 kept	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 kept	cc
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 effort	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 effort	det
20	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kept	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kept	nsubj
22	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 known	parataxis
23	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kept	xcomp
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 questioning	case
25	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 questioning	amod
26	questioning	questioning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kept	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 said	advmod
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kept	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past · perfect · passive		portrait		of such things; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	run	past	a cold shiver			through portrait	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through he=Trajectory
3	keep	past	portrait		further questioning	with a effort; silent property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from questioning=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	portrait not said here				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 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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