The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 96
“One night,” continued King Sinaubar, “I was aroused by feeling Gul’s hands and feet, deadly cold, against my body.
What happens: continue, arouse, feel · To what, where: King, prince, hands, body
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 night | nummod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obj |
| 8 | Sinaubar | Sinaubar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 aroused | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 aroused | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 aroused | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 aroused | aux:pass |
| 13 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 continued | conj |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 feeling | mark |
| 15 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 aroused | advcl |
| 16 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Gul | case |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feeling | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feet | cc |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hands | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cold | punct |
| 22 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cold | amod |
| 23 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hands | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 body | punct |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 27 body | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 body | nmod:poss |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feeling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | King | night | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arouse in a quote | past · passive | the prince = prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | gerund | Gul's hands and feet | my body | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme against body=Location |
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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