The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 154

So he was frightened and went out; but he felt quite faint, and trembled and shook, and his knees and legs began to give way under him.

Who acts: Husband, knees · What happens: frighten, go out, feel, tremble, shake, begin · To what, where: Husband, way

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Husband, knees), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 frightened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 felt	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 felt	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 faint	advmod
13	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 felt	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trembled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 trembled	cc
16	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 felt	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shook	cc
18	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 trembled	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 knees	nmod:poss
22	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 began	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 legs	cc
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 knees	conj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 felt	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 give	mark
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
29	under	under	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		Husband		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	go out	past			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	Husband		faint property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	tremble	past	Husband not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shake	past	Husband not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	begin	past	Husband's knees and legs			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	give	to-infinitive	Husband's knees and legs not said here	way	under Husband	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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