The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 28
Then the young man’s heart stood still, for he loved her dearly.
Who acts: heart · What happens: stand, love · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 man | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 stood | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loved | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 loved | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | obj |
| 14 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 12 loved | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the young man's heart | then; still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | love | past | heart | daughter | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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