The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 177
But on his side Stan was trembling like an aspen, as he could not lift even one sack from the ground.
Who acts: Stan · What happens: tremble, not lift · To what, where: side, one sack, ground
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 trembling | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 side | nmod:poss |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trembling | obl |
| 5 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 trembling | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trembling | aux |
| 7 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 aspen | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 aspen | det |
| 10 | aspen | aspen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trembling | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lift | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 lift | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lift | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lift | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 lift | advmod |
| 16 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trembling | conj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 sack | nummod |
| 19 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lift | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lift | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 trembling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past · progressive | Stan | Stan's side | like a aspen | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | |||
| 2 | not lift | could | Stan | one sack | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme from ground=Destination |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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