The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 3
The Prince was terrified; he dared not look back, and he felt his strength giving way.
Who acts: Prince, Fairy, strength · What happens: be, look back, feel, give · To what, where: strength, way
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Fairy, strength), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 terrified | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | cop |
| 4 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 7 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 dared | advmod |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 terrified | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 felt | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 strength | nmod:poss |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obj |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 strength | acl |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look back | past | Fairy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | Fairy | Fairy's strength | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | Fairy's strength not said here | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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