The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 197
But the storm was raging so fiercely that he could scarcely stand.
Who acts: storm · What happens: rage, stand
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 (storm), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 raging | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raging | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raging | aux |
| 5 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 fiercely | advmod |
| 7 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 5 raging | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 stand | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stand | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stand | aux |
| 11 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 12 stand | advmod |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 raging | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past · progressive | the storm | fiercely property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand | could | storm | scarcely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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