The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 53
And his ears were stopped, and his legs trembled, and his tongue grew heavy at the thought of the sultan.
Who acts: legs, tongue · What happens: stop, tremble, grow, think · To what, where: ears, thought, sultan
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, tongue), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stopped | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ears | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stopped | aux:pass |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trembled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trembled | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trembled | nsubj |
| 10 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stopped | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 trembled | conj |
| 16 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 thought | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thought | det |
| 19 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sultan | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sultan | det |
| 22 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past · passive | sun's ears | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tremble | past | sun's legs | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | sun's tongue | the thought of the sultan | heavy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Location | |||
| 4 | think | the sultan | nom thought «cognition 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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