The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 47

He felt half frightened to death, and besides was a good deal shaken by his fall from the tree and did not feel at all inclined to dance.

Who acts: heart, besides · What happens: feel, frighten, be, shake, not feel, incline · To what, where: good deal, all

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, besides), 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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 frightened	advmod
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 death	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deal	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 deal	cc
9	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 deal	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 deal	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 deal	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deal	amod
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	conj
14	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 deal	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fall	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fall	nmod:poss
17	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shaken	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shaken	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feel	cc
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 feel	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 feel	advmod
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 feel	obl
27	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 feel	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 dance	mark
29	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 inclined	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	heart				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	frighten	participle	heart not said here			to death; half property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	besides	a good deal			tree rules
4	shake	participle		a good deal not said here		by heart's fall; from the tree	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from tree=Stimulus
5	not feel	past · do-support	heart not said here		all		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location
6	incline	participle	heart not said here				tree rules
7	dance	to-infinitive	heart not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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