The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 66

As the Count returned to the castle, a cold shiver passed over him, and he felt, as the saying is, that some one was walking over his grave.

Who acts: Count, cold shiver, shiver, saying · What happens: return, pass, feel, be · To what, where: grave

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count, cold shiver, shiver, saying), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 Count	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Count	det
3	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 castle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shiver	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shiver	amod
11	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	nsubj
12	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 returned	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 passed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 felt	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 felt	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 felt	nsubj
18	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 returned	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 walking	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 walking	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 saying	det
22	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walking	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 walking	cop
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 walking	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 walking	mark
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walking	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 walking	aux
29	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 felt	conj
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 grave	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 grave	nmod:poss
32	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walking	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	the Count		to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
2	pass	past	a cold shiver		over Count	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over he=Location
3	feel	past	shiver			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present · progressive	the saying	Count's grave	walk property	tree rules

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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