The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 93

Stan stooped and felt it; then a great fear came over him, for he knew that he and all his children together would never lift that club from the ground.

Who acts: Stan, great fear · What happens: stoop, feel, come, know, not lift · To what, where: club, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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, great 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	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stooped	nsubj
2	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 felt	cc
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stooped	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fear	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fear	amod
10	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stooped	parataxis
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 lift	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lift	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 children	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 children	det:predet
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 children	nmod:poss
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 he	conj
24	together	together	ADV	_	27 lift	advmod
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lift	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 lift	advmod
27	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knew	ccomp
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 club	det
29	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lift	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lift	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stoop	past	Stan					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	Stan not said here	club				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	come	past	a great fear			then	over Stan	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location
4	know	past	Stan					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not lift	would	Stan	that club	the ground		together property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent club=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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