--- title: Just at midnight, a horrible feeling that was new and strange to him… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Just at midnight, a horrible feeling that was new and strange to him came over Stan--a feeling that he could not put into words even to himself, but which almost forced him to give up the battle and take the shortest road home again. Who acts: horrible feeling, feeling. A sentence of «The Violet Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/) / 56 # The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 56 Just at midnight, a horrible feeling that was new and strange to him came over Stan--a feeling that he could not put into words even to himself, but which almost forced him to give up the battle and take the shortest road home again. **Who acts:** horrible feeling, feeling · **What happens:** be, come, not put, force, give up, take · **To what, where:** feeling, Stan, words, battle, shortest road This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrible feeling, feeling), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:13:56 # text = Just at midnight, a horrible feeling that was new and strange to him came over Stan--a feeling that he could not put into words even to himself, but which almost forced him to give up the battle and take the shortest road home again. 1 Just just ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Stan Stan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 -- -- PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 even even ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 34 almost almost ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 shortest short ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 46 amod _ _ 46 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 home home ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 48 again again ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | a horrible feeling | | feeling | | | new *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a horrible feeling *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | a horrible feeling | | | Stan | midnight | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over stan=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **not** **put** | could | feeling | a feeling *not said here* | feeling | words | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent feeling=Goal | | 5 | **force** | past | a horrible feeling *not said here* | feeling | | | | almost *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **give up** | to-infinitive | feeling *not said here* | the battle | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Source | | 7 | **take** | infinitive | feeling *not said here* | the shortest road | | | again | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/57/) - ↑ back to [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/)