The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 2

At this the fisher’s son felt the cold creeping up to his heart, yet he knew the fault had not been his that sleep had overtaken him.

Who acts: cold, son · What happens: feel, creep up, know, not overtake, sleep · To what, where: cold, heart, fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold, son), 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	At	at	ADP	_	6 son	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 son	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fisher	det
4	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 fisher	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 felt	obl
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cold	det
9	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 felt	obj
10	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cold	acl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 creeping	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 heart	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heart	nmod:poss
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 creeping	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fault	det
20	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 overtaken	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 overtaken	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 overtaken	advmod
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 overtaken	aux:pass
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sleep	nmod:poss
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 sleep	det
26	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 overtaken	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 overtaken	aux
28	overtaken	overtake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 knew	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 overtaken	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past		the cold		at the fisher's son	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cold=Theme at son=Location
2	creep up	gerund	the cold not said here		son's heart		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to heart=Destination
3	know	past	son				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not overtake	past · perfect · passive		the fault			tree rules
5	sleep		son				nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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