The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 51
His heart beat with pleasure when he caught the first glimpses of the Daimio’s train, and he held himself ready for the right moment.
Who acts: heart beat, man · What happens: catch, hold, glimpse · To what, where: first glimpses, man, train
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart beat, man), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 beat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | compound |
| 3 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 pleasure | case |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | nmod |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 caught | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 glimpses | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 glimpses | amod |
| 11 | glimpses | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 caught | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 train | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Daimio | det |
| 14 | Daimio | Daimio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 train | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Daimio | case |
| 16 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glimpses | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 held | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 held | nsubj |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 held | obj |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 held | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 moment | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moment | det |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 moment | amod |
| 26 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ready | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | man's heart beat with pleasure | the first glimpses of the Daimio's train | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | man | man | ready property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | glimpse | the Daimio's train | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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