The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 60

At her words the prisoner felt as if a load had all at once been rolled off him.

Who acts: prisoner, woman · What happens: feel, roll off, word · To what, where: words, load

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, woman), 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	_	3 words	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod:poss
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 felt	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prisoner	det
5	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 rolled	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 rolled	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 load	det
10	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rolled	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rolled	aux
12	all	all	ADV	_	16 rolled	advmod
13	at	at	SCONJ	_	16 rolled	mark
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 rolled	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 rolled	aux:pass
16	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 felt	advcl
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 rolled	compound:prt
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rolled	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the prisoner		woman's words		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at word=Location
2	roll off	past · perfect · passive		a load		all, once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme he=Result
3	word		woman				nom word «communication 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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