The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 101
Still his heart was light, for he felt that he had got through the most difficult part of his task, and the rest was easy.
Who acts: you, heart, adventurer, rest · What happens: still, be, feel, get, task · To what, where: difficult part
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heart, adventurer, rest), 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 | Still | still | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 light | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 light | cop |
| 5 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Still | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 felt | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 light | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 got | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 felt | ccomp |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 part | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 part | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 difficult | advmod |
| 17 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 part | amod |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 task | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 task | nmod:poss |
| 21 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 easy | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 easy | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rest | det |
| 25 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 easy | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 easy | cop |
| 27 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 got | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | still | imperative | you not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | adventurer's heart | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | adventurer | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | past · perfect | adventurer | the difficult part of adventurer's task | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through part=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the rest | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | task | adventurer | nom task «act 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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