The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 127
And his heart felt lighter because he hadn’t had to do the deed himself.
Who acts: heart, huntsman · What happens: feel, not have, do · To what, where: deed
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, huntsman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 felt | cc |
| 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 | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 had | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 felt | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 deed | det |
| 14 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 do | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | huntsman's heart | light property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not have | past · perfect | huntsman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | huntsman not said here | the deed | huntsman obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
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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