The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 90
He suddenly felt a jerk, and saw that the thread must have caught on something, and this thought filled him with the daring that is born of despair.
Who acts: Girouette, something, thought · What happens: feel, see, catch, fill, bear · To what, where: jerk, thread, Girouette, daring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Girouette, something, thought), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 felt | advmod |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 jerk | det |
| 5 | jerk | jerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 caught | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thread | det |
| 11 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 caught | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 caught | aux |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 something | case |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 caught | obl:agent |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 filled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 filled | cc |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 thought | det |
| 20 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | nsubj |
| 21 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 filled | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 daring | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 daring | det |
| 25 | daring | daring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 born | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 born | aux:pass |
| 28 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 daring | acl:relcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 despair | case |
| 30 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 born | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Girouette | a jerk | suddenly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerk=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Girouette not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | catch | must · perfect · passive | something | the thread | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | this thought | Girouette | with the daring | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with daring=Instrument | |||
| 5 | bear | present · passive | the daring | of despair | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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