The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 24

He was so much surprised that he stood quite still, until he felt himself pushed forward by other hands, so that, though he was somewhat uneasy, he could not help going on.

Who acts: two · What happens: be, stand, feel, push forward, not help, go on · To what, where: two

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 stood	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	advcl
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 still	advmod
10	still	still	ADV	_	8 stood	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 felt	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 felt	obj
16	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 felt	xcomp
17	forward	forward	ADV	_	16 pushed	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pushed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 that	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 felt	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 uneasy	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 uneasy	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 uneasy	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 uneasy	cop
28	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	29 uneasy	advmod
29	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 felt	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 help	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 help	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 help	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 help	advmod
34	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 uneasy	conj
35	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 help	xcomp
36	on	on	ADP	_	35 going	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	two			surprise property	tree rules
2	stand	past	two		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	two	two			tree rules
4	push forward	participle	two not said here			by other hands; forward property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by hand=Trajectory
5	is	past	two			somewhat, uneasy property	tree rules
6	not help	could	two				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	go on not said to happen	gerund	two not said here				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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