The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 97

I kept a tight grip of him, and I little knew whether he was going backwards or forwards, or how long we were about it, till my hand was taken again, and I felt the ground under me.

Who acts: I, infant, we · What happens: keep, know, go, be, take, feel · To what, where: tight grip, hand, ground, infant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, infant, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grip	det
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grip	amod
5	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grip	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
11	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 knew	advmod
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 going	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 knew	advcl
17	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	16 going	advmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 forwards	cc
19	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	17 backwards	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 it	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 it	cc
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 it	advmod
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 it	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 it	cop
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 taken	punct
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 taken	mark
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taken	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 taken	aux:pass
33	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kept	conj
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 taken	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 felt	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 felt	cc
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 felt	nsubj
38	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 felt	obj
41	under	under	ADP	_	42 me	case
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 felt	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	I	a tight grip of infant			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=Theme
2	know	past	I			little property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	past · progressive	infant			backwards property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	we			about grip; long property	tree rules
5	take	past · passive		my hand	again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	feel	past	I	the ground		under me	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ground=Theme under i=Location
7	grip			infant			nom grip «act transitive»: of=patient

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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