The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 123
His father and mother stood silently behind with a curious pang in their souls which they did not quite understand.
Who acts: father · What happens: stand, not understand · To what, where: souls
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mother | cc |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 7 behind | advmod |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pang | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pang | det |
| 10 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pang | amod |
| 11 | pang | pang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 souls | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 souls | nmod:poss |
| 14 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pang | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 understand | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 understand | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 understand | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 understand | advmod |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 understand | advmod |
| 20 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 souls | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | prince's father and mother | with a curious pang in father's souls; behind property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not understand | past · do-support | father | father's souls | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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