The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 76
There he felt the sort of feeling we have looking at the great rolling sea in a storm, and he burst into tears.
Who acts: light, we, sort · What happens: feel, have, look, roll, burst, sort · To what, where: sort, feeling, tears
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, we, sort), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 felt | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sort | det |
| 5 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 feeling | case |
| 7 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sort | nmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sort | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sea | amod |
| 14 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 sea | amod |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 storm | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 storm | det |
| 18 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sea | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 burst | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 burst | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 burst | nsubj |
| 22 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 tears | case |
| 24 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 burst | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | light | the sort of feeling | there | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | we | feeling not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the sort of feeling not said here | at the great rolling sea in a storm | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sea=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | burst | past | light | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sort | feeling | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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