The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 26

Feeling more dead than alive, he paused for a while to collect his scattered senses, but when he seemed somewhat restored the stag struck such a blow on a door in the rock that it flew open.

Who acts: tailor, stag · What happens: feel, pause, collect, seem, restore, strike · To what, where: scattered senses, blow

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, stag), 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	Feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 paused	advcl
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 dead	amod
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Feeling	xcomp
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 alive	case
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dead	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Feeling	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 paused	nsubj
8	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 while	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 while	det
11	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paused	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 collect	mark
13	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 paused	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 senses	nmod:poss
15	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	16 senses	amod
16	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 collect	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seemed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 seemed	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 seemed	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 paused	parataxis
22	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	23 restored	advmod
23	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seemed	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stag	det
25	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	nsubj
26	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seemed	conj
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 blow	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 blow	det
29	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 door	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 rock	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rock	det
35	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 struck	obl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 flew	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 flew	nsubj
38	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 struck	advcl
39	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 flew	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund	tailor not said here			dead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	pause	past	tailor		while		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	collect	to-infinitive	tailor not said here	tailor's scattered senses			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme
4	seem	past	tailor				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	restore	past	tailor not said here			somewhat property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	strike	past	the stag	such blow		in the rock; on a door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent blow=Instrument on door=Patient
7	fly	past	stag			open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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