The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 106

At last, however, the strong man felt sick, and before long he knew he must die.

Who acts: strong man, man · What happens: feel, know, die · To what, where: last

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong man, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 felt	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 felt	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	nsubj
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 felt	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 long	case
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 knew	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 felt	advcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 die	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 die	aux
19	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knew	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the strong man	last	however, sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	know	past	man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	die	must	man			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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