The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 15
Suddenly an idea entered his mind, which he thought might save him still.
Who acts: idea, mind, Antoine · What happens: enter, think, save, mind · To what, where: mind, Antoine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, mind, Antoine), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 idea | det |
| 3 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | acl |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 save | aux |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 save | obj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 save | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | a idea | Antoine's mind | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Destination | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Antoine's mind | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | might | Antoine | still | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mind | Antoine | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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