The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 18
No sooner had he done so than he felt a warm breath upon his cheek.
Who acts: Marie · What happens: do, feel · To what, where: warm breath, cheek
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marie), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | 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 done | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 breath | det |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 breath | amod |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 cheek | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breath | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Marie | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Marie | a warm breath | Marie's cheek | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent breath=Theme upon cheek=Location |
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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