The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 45

Gon, however, stood his ground boldly, and prepared to give battle, for he felt that Koma’s eyes were upon him, and that he must not run away.

Who acts: Gon, eyes · What happens: stand, give, feel, be, not run away · To what, where: ground, battle

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Gon, eyes), 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	Gon	Gon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gon	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ground	nmod:poss
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obj
8	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 stood	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prepared	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 prepared	cc
11	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stood	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 prepared	xcomp
14	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 felt	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 felt	mark
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	5 stood	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 him	mark
20	Koma	Koma	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 eyes	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Koma	case
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 him	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 him	cop
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 felt	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 run	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 run	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 run	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 run	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 run	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 run	advmod
32	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 felt	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 run	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Gon	Gon's ground	boldly, however property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus
2	give	to-infinitive	Gon not said here	battle		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme
3	feel	past	Gon			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	Koma's eyes		upon eye	tree rules
5	not run away	must	Gon		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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