The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 74
He did this so often that at length his strength seemed exhausted, and he sank almost breathless on the ground.
Who acts: friend, length · What happens: do, seem, exhaust, sink · To what, where: this
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, length), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 often | advmod |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 seemed | mark |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 length | case |
| 8 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 strength | nmod:poss |
| 10 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 length | obj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 12 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sank | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sank | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sank | nsubj |
| 16 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 17 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 18 breathless | advmod |
| 18 | breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sank | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breathless | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | friend | this | often property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | seem | past | length | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | exhaust | participle | length not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sink | past | friend | breathless property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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