The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 56
Just at midnight, a horrible feeling that was new and strange to him came over Stan--a feeling that he could not put into words even to himself, but which almost forced him to give up the battle and take the shortest road home again.
Who acts: horrible feeling, feeling · What happens: be, come, not put, force, give up, take · To what, where: feeling, Stan, words, battle, shortest road
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 (horrible feeling, feeling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feeling | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 feeling | det |
| 6 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feeling | amod |
| 7 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 new | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 new | cop |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strange | cc |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 new | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 new | obl |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 Stan | case |
| 17 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 feeling | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 feeling | det |
| 20 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 put | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 put | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 put | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 put | advmod |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 feeling | acl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 words | case |
| 27 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 put | obl |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 himself | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 himself | case |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 put | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 forced | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 forced | cc |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 forced | obj |
| 34 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 35 forced | advmod |
| 35 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 forced | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 give | mark |
| 38 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 forced | xcomp |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 give | compound:prt |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 battle | det |
| 41 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 give | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 take | cc |
| 43 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 give | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 road | det |
| 45 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 road | amod |
| 46 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 take | obj |
| 47 | home | home | ADV | _ | 43 take | advmod |
| 48 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 take | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a horrible feeling | feeling | new property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | a horrible feeling not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | a horrible feeling | Stan | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over stan=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | not put | could | feeling | a feeling not said here | feeling | words | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent feeling=Goal | ||
| 5 | force | past | a horrible feeling not said here | feeling | almost property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | give up | to-infinitive | feeling not said here | the battle | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Source | ||||
| 7 | take | infinitive | feeling not said here | the shortest road | again | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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 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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