The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 103

Why it bulges all down the back, as if I had a hump, and it is so tight across the chest that I expect it to burst every time I breathe.

Who acts: coat, I, chest · What happens: bulge, have, be, expect, burst, breathe · To what, where: hump, chest, time

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat, I, chest), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 bulges	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bulges	nsubj
3	bulges	bulge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bulges	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bulges	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hump	det
14	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tight	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tight	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tight	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tight	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 tight	advmod
20	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 had	conj
21	across	across	ADP	_	23 chest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chest	det
23	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tight	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 expect	obj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 expect	nsubj
26	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 chest	acl:relcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 expect	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 burst	mark
29	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 expect	xcomp
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 burst	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 breathe	nsubj
33	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 time	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bulges	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bulge	present	coat				down the back	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	a hump				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient
3	is	present	coat		the chest		tight property	tree rules
4	expect	present	I	the chest				tree rules
5	burst not said to happen	to-infinitive	the chest not said here			time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	breathe	present	I	every time not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme

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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