The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 71
I fell to the ground, and the stranger muttered some words, which robbed me of my senses.
Who acts: I, stranger, words · What happens: fall, mutter, rob · To what, where: words, me
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 (I, stranger, words), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 muttered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 muttered | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stranger | det |
| 9 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 muttered | nsubj |
| 10 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 muttered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 robbed | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 robbed | nsubj |
| 15 | robbed | rob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 words | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 robbed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 senses | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 senses | nmod:poss |
| 19 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 robbed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | I | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | past | the stranger | some words | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | rob | past | some words | me | of my senses | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme of sens=Source |
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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