The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 118
He felt as though he were sinking into a snow-drift.
Who acts: masterpiece · What happens: feel, sink · To what, where: snow drift
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masterpiece), 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 | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 2 felt | advmod |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 sinking | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sinking | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sinking | aux |
| 7 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 felt | advcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 drift | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 drift | det |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drift | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 snow | punct |
| 12 | drift | drift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sinking | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | masterpiece | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sink | past · progressive | masterpiece | a snow drift | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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