The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 18
Again that feeling of awful fear took possession of him, and he tried to turn his eyes from the pool.
Who acts: feeling, manner · What happens: take, try, turn, possess · To what, where: possession, eyes, pool, manner
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, manner), 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 | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 feeling | det |
| 3 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 5 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fear | amod |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feeling | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 possession | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tried | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tried | nsubj |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 turn | mark |
| 16 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tried | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turn | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 pool | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pool | det |
| 21 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | that feeling of awful fear | possession of manner | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | past | manner | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | turn not said to happen | to-infinitive | manner not said here | manner's eyes | the pool | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from pool=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | possess | manner | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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