The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 147

The Snow-man felt wonderfully happy, and a feeling came over him which he could not express; but all those who are not snow-men know about it.

Who acts: Snow man, feeling, man · What happens: feel, come, not express, be · To what, where: those

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow man, feeling, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Snow	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 felt	nsubj
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	7 happy	advmod
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 felt	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 feeling	det
11	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 felt	parataxis
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 express	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 express	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 express	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 express	advmod
19	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 those	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 those	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 those	det:predet
23	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 felt	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 know	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 know	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 men	advmod
27	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 men	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 snow	punct
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 know	nsubj
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 those	acl:relcl
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 know	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the Snow man	those	happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	past	a feeling		over man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location
3	not express	could	man			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
4	is	present			about feeling; know property	tree rules

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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