The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 1

As soon as the young man had recovered from his surprise, he prepared to jump into the lake and swim to shore.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: recover, prepare, jump, swim, surprise · To what, where: surprise, lake, shore

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, 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	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 prepared	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 recovered	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recovered	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 recovered	aux
8	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 prepared	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 surprise	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 surprise	nmod:poss
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recovered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 recovered	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 prepared	nsubj
14	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 jump	mark
16	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 prepared	xcomp
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 lake	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lake	det
19	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jump	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 swim	cc
21	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 jump	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 shore	case
23	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swim	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	recover	past · perfect	the young man	man's surprise		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source
2	prepare	past	man		soon property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	jump not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here		into the lake result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lake=Result
4	swim	infinitive	man not said here	shore		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination
5	surprise		man			nom surprise «feeling 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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