The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 96

His heart gave a great bound, and all his fears left him, but he was forced to be patient, for the sides of the rock were smooth, and not even a goat could find foothold.

Who acts: heart, fears, rock, sides, goat · What happens: give, leave, force, be, not find, fear · To what, where: great bound, rock, foothold

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, fears, rock, sides), 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 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bound	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bound	amod
6	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fears	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fears	nmod:poss
11	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 left	nsubj
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 forced	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 forced	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 forced	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 forced	aux:pass
18	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gave	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	21 patient	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 patient	cop
21	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 forced	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sides	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 sides	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sides	det
25	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 smooth	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 rock	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rock	det
28	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sides	nmod
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 smooth	cop
30	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 forced	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 find	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 find	cc
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 find	advmod
34	even	even	ADV	_	38 find	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 goat	det
36	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 find	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 find	aux
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 forced	conj
39	foothold	foothold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 find	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	rock's heart	a great bound		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme
2	leave	past	rock's fears	rock		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	force	past · passive		rock		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	is	to-infinitive	rock not said here		patient property	tree rules
5	is	past	the sides of the rock		smooth property	tree rules
6	not find	could	a goat	foothold		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foothold=Topic
7	fear		rock			nom fear «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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