The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 103
Yet suddenly he felt a pang at his heart as he wandered down the street.
Who acts: thatch · What happens: feel, wander · To what, where: pang, heart, street
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thatch), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 felt | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 felt | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pang | det |
| 6 | pang | pang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 wandered | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wandered | nsubj |
| 12 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 street | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 street | det |
| 15 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wandered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | thatch | a pang | thatch's heart | suddenly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pang=Theme at heart=Location | ||
| 2 | wander | past | thatch | the street | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down street=Trajectory |
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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