The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 101

For a moment his heart sank, and he gave himself up for dead, till he remembered that, not far off, were two little lakes joined together by a short though very broad river.

Who acts: heart, Andras · What happens: sink, give up, remember, be, join · To what, where: Andras, that, two little lakes

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Andras), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sank	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sank	nsubj
6	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sank	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 gave	iobj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 gave	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 dead	case
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gave	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remembered	punct
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 remembered	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 remembered	nsubj
18	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	conj
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 remembered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 off	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 off	advmod
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 off	advmod
23	off	off	ADV	_	18 remembered	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lakes	punct
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lakes	cop
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 lakes	nummod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lakes	amod
28	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 off	conj
29	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 lakes	acl
30	together	together	ADV	_	29 joined	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	37 river	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 river	det
33	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 river	amod
34	though	though	ADV	_	37 river	advmod
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 broad	advmod
36	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 river	amod
37	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 joined	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	Andras's heart			moment		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	give up	past	heart		Andras		for dead	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Source
3	remember	past	Andras	that				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	is a	past	Andras not said here	two little lakes				tree rules
5	join	participle		two little lakes not said here			by a short broad river; together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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