The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 13
As for the other, he was quite unhurt, and was slowly rising to his feet when his arms were suddenly seized and held.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, rise, seize, hold · To what, where: feet, arms
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 other | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 other | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 unhurt | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 other | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 unhurt | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unhurt | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 unhurt | advmod |
| 9 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rising | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rising | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rising | aux |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 14 rising | advmod |
| 14 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 unhurt | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rising | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 seized | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seized | aux:pass |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 23 seized | advmod |
| 23 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rising | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 held | cc |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 seized | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 unhurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | as the other; unhurt property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | past · progressive | man not said here | man's feet | slowly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | seize | past · passive | man's arms | suddenly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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