The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 121
When he came to himself, he had a pleasant feeling of freshness all about him.
Who acts: son · What happens: come, have · To what, where: son, pleasant feeling
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 (son), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 feeling | det |
| 10 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feeling | amod |
| 11 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 freshness | case |
| 13 | freshness | freshness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feeling | nmod |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 him | advmod |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | son | son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | son | a pleasant feeling of freshness | about Désiré | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=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 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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