--- title: Feeling more dead than alive, he paused for a while to collect his s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Feeling more dead than alive, he paused for a while to collect his scattered senses, but when he seemed somewhat restored the stag struck such a blow on a door in the rock that it flew open. Who acts: tailor, stag. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/26/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Crystal Coffin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/) / 26 # The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 26 Feeling more dead than alive, he paused for a while to collect his scattered senses, but when he seemed somewhat restored the stag struck such a blow on a door in the rock that it flew open. **Who acts:** tailor, stag · **What happens:** feel, pause, collect, seem, restore, strike · **To what, where:** scattered senses, blow 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 (tailor, stag), 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:pg7277:45:26 # text = Feeling more dead than alive, he paused for a while to collect his scattered senses, but when he seemed somewhat restored the stag struck such a blow on a door in the rock that it flew open. 1 Feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 paused pause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 scattered scatter ADJ VBN _ 16 amod _ _ 16 senses sens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 22 somewhat somewhat ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 restored restore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 29 det:predet _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 39 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | gerund | tailor *not said here* | | | | | dead *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **pause** | past | tailor | | | | while | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **collect** | to-infinitive | tailor *not said here* | tailor's scattered senses | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme | | 4 | **seem** | past | tailor | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **restore** | past | tailor *not said here* | | | | | somewhat *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **strike** | past | the stag | such blow | | | | in the rock; on a door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent blow=Instrument on door=Patient | | 7 | **fly** | past | stag | | | | | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/27/) - ↑ back to [The Crystal Coffin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/45/)