The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 6
With that he felt as if he were rooted to the spot and could not move.
Who acts: thought · What happens: feel, root, not move · To what, where: thought
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 felt | obl |
| 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 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 rooted | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 rooted | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rooted | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rooted | aux:pass |
| 9 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rooted | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 move | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 move | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 move | advmod |
| 16 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rooted | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | thought | with that | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | root a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | thought | to the spot | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not move | could | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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