The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 32

Alonzo felt his senses going and his will failing.

Who acts: Alonzo, air · What happens: feel, go, fail · To what, where: senses

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 (Alonzo, air), 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	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 senses	nmod:poss
4	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 felt	obj
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 felt	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 failing	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 failing	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 failing	aux
9	failing	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 going	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	feel	past	Alonzo	air's senses	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme
2	go	gerund	Alonzo not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fail	future	air		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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