The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 38

He would have continued gazing much longer at this remarkable curiosity had not the voice desired him to turn round and look at the crystal coffin which stood opposite.

Who acts: voice, crystal coffin · What happens: continue, gaze, have, desire, turn round, look · To what, where: floor, remarkable curiosity, opposite

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 (voice, crystal coffin), 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	4 continued	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 continued	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 continued	aux
4	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 continued	xcomp
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 gazing	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 curiosity	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 curiosity	det
10	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 curiosity	amod
11	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gazing	advcl
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 voice	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 voice	det
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 desired	nsubj
16	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 desired	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 turn	mark
19	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 desired	xcomp
20	round	round	ADV	_	19 turn	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 look	cc
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 turn	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 coffin	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 coffin	det
25	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 coffin	amod
26	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 look	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 coffin	acl:relcl
29	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stood	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	would · perfect · passive		floor			tree rules
2	gaze	gerund				long property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	have	past			this remarkable curiosity		tree rules
4	desire	past	the voice	floor			tree rules
5	turn round not said to happen	to-infinitive	the voice not said here			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	look	infinitive	the voice not said here			at the crystal coffin	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at coffin=Theme
7	stand	past	the crystal coffin	opposite			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opposite=Stimulus

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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