The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 73
He felt stronger than he had ever felt during his waking moments, and lifted two bars quite easily on to his back.
Who acts: friend · What happens: feel, wake, lift · To what, where: two bars, back
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 felt | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | aux |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 felt | advmod |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 felt | advcl |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 moments | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 moments | nmod:poss |
| 11 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 moments | amod |
| 12 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 felt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lifted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lifted | cc |
| 15 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 bars | nummod |
| 17 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lifted | obj |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 easily | advmod |
| 19 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 20 on | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 lifted | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | friend | strong property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | past · perfect | friend | ever; moment | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wake | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | lift | past | friend not said here | two bars | friend's back | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bar=Theme to back=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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