The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 29
At length his breath failed him, and he threw himself almost senseless on the turf.
Who acts: breath, noise · What happens: fail, throw · To what, where: noise, length, turf
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breath, noise), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 failed | obl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 breath | nmod:poss |
| 4 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 failed | nsubj |
| 5 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 failed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threw | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | nsubj |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 failed | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 threw | obj |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 senseless | advmod |
| 13 | senseless | senseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 threw | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 turf | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 turf | det |
| 16 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | noise's breath | noise | length | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | throw | past | noise | noise | the turf | senseless property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on turf=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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