The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 69

Left to himself, the full horror of his coming death rushed upon the young man, and he understood that he had thrown away his sole chance of life.

Who acts: prisoner, life · What happens: leave, come, rush, understand, throw away, die · To what, where: full horror, prisoner, coming death, sole chance · Speech: someone speaks here

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, life), 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	Left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 himself	case
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Left	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horror	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horror	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horror	amod
7	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Left	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 death	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 death	nmod:poss
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 death	amod
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horror	nmod
12	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 death	acl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rushed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 understood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 understood	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 understood	nsubj
20	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Left	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 thrown	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thrown	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 thrown	aux
24	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 understood	ccomp
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 thrown	advmod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 chance	nmod:poss
27	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 chance	amod
28	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thrown	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 life	case
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chance	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		the full horror of prisoner's coming death	prisoner		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location
2	come	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rush	participle		prisoner's coming death not said here		upon the young man	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Trajectory
4	understand	past	prisoner				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	throw away	past · perfect	prisoner	prisoner's sole chance of life		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme
6	die		prisoner				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
7	chance		life				nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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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