The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 20
Then he felt a pair of little hands softly clasping his arm; he opened his eyes, and saw his queen and her children.
Who acts: king · What happens: feel, clasp, open, see · To what, where: pair, arm, eyes, queen
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | 3 felt | advmod |
| 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pair | det |
| 5 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hands | amod |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pair | nmod |
| 9 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 10 clasping | advmod |
| 10 | clasping | clasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 felt | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arm | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clasping | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 opened | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 opened | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 opened | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 queen | nmod:poss |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 children | cc |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 children | nmod:poss |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 queen | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | king | a pair of little hands | then | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | |||
| 2 | clasp | gerund | king not said here | king's arm | softly property | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | open | past | king | king's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | king not said here | king's queen and woman's children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=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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