The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 55

At every step he seemed to sink into the clouds, but fear gave wings to his feet, and he crossed the lake in safety and set to work at once.

Who acts: Prince, fear · What happens: seem, sink, give, cross, set, work · To what, where: clouds, wings, lake

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, fear), 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	_	3 step	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 step	det
3	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sink	mark
7	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seemed	xcomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 clouds	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clouds	det
10	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sink	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
13	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	conj
15	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gave	iobj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 feet	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gave	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crossed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crossed	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 crossed	nsubj
22	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lake	det
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crossed	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 safety	case
26	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crossed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 set	cc
28	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 crossed	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 work	mark
30	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 set	xcomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 work	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Prince				at every step	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	sink	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			the clouds		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	give	past	fear		wings		to Prince's feet	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wing=Theme to foot=Recipient
4	cross	past	Prince	the lake			in safety	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent lake=Patient in safety=Topic
5	set	infinitive	Prince not said here					tree rules
6	work	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=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 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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