The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 69

How long this fearful stillness lasted I do not know, but the prince gradually felt his heart turning to ice, his hair stood up like bristles, and a cold chill was creeping down his spine, when at last--oh, ecstasy!--a faint noise broke on his straining ears, and this life of shadows suddenly became real.

Who acts: fearful stillness, I, prince, heart, hair, cold chill · What happens: last, not know, feel, turn, stand up, creep down · To what, where: heart, ice, spine, straining ears

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fearful stillness, I, prince, heart), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 lasted	advmod
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 stillness	det
4	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stillness	amod
5	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lasted	nsubj
6	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lasted	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 felt	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 felt	nsubj
15	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	16 felt	advmod
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lasted	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heart	nmod:poss
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 felt	obj
19	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 heart	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 ice	case
21	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turning	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hair	nmod:poss
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	nsubj
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lasted	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 stood	compound:prt
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 bristles	case
28	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stood	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 creeping	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 creeping	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 chill	det
32	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 chill	amod
33	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 creeping	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 creeping	aux
35	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lasted	advcl
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 creeping	compound:prt
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 spine	nmod:poss
38	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 creeping	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 last	punct
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 last	advmod
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 last	case
42	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lasted	conj
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 ecstasy	punct
44	oh	oh	INTJ	_	46 ecstasy	discourse
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 oh	punct
46	ecstasy	ecstasy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 last	obl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 last	punct
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	52 broke	punct
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 noise	det
50	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 noise	amod
51	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 broke	nsubj
52	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lasted	conj
53	on	on	ADP	_	56 ears	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 ears	nmod:poss
55	straining	straining	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 ears	compound
56	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 broke	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 became	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 became	cc
59	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 life	det
60	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 became	nsubj
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 shadows	case
62	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 life	nmod
63	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	64 became	advmod
64	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lasted	conj
65	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 became	xcomp
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	last	past	this fearful stillness			long property	tree rules
2	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	feel	past	the prince	prince's heart		gradually property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
4	turn	gerund	prince's heart not said here		ice		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ice=Trajectory
5	stand up	past	prince's hair			like bristles	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	creep down	past · progressive	a cold chill	prince's spine			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location spine=Theme
7	break	past	a faint noise		prince's straining ears		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ear=Location
8	become	past	this life of shadows			real, suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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