The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 36
It makes me feel as if some gentle hand had lifted every care and sorrow from me.’
Who acts: head, me · What happens: make, feel, lift · To what, where: me, gentle hand
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, me), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 lifted | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 lifted | mark |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 hand | det |
| 8 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hand | amod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lifted | aux |
| 11 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 feel | advcl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 care | det |
| 13 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lifted | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sorrow | cc |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 care | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 lifted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | head | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | me not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lift | past · perfect · passive | some gentle hand | from me | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=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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