The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 47
Hardly had the Prince touched the ground than he felt himself violently seized by an unseen power, and hurried away he knew not whither.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, touch, feel, seize, hurry away, not know · To what, where: ground, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 felt | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | advcl |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 felt | obj |
| 12 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 13 seized | advmod |
| 13 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 power | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 power | det |
| 16 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 power | amod |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hurried | cc |
| 20 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 hurried | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hurried | conj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 knew | advmod |
| 25 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 knew | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | hardly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | touch | past | the Prince | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Prince | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seize | participle | Prince not said here | by a unseen power; violently property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hurry away | past | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not know | past | Prince | whither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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