I felt the need ofStimulus↝Topic protecting him , as ifManner↝ComparisonRef he himself were a flame that might be extinguished byForce↝Force a little puff ofStuff↝Stuff wind ...

Ex P Role ↝ Function ℹ Adposition Part of Speech Governor Head Governor Part of Speech Governor Supersense Object Head Object Part of Speech Object Supersense Governor-Object Syntax Transitive? Typo? Abbrev? Sent ID
(18803) I felt the need of protecting him , as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind ... Stimulus ≠ Topic SCONJ need NOUN protect VERB subordinating ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1274
(18804) I felt the need of protecting him , as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind ... Force = Force ADP extinguish VERB puff NOUN default ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1274
(18805) I felt the need of protecting him , as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind ... Stuff = Stuff ADP puff NOUN wind NOUN default ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1274
(18806) I felt the need of protecting him , as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind ... Manner ≠ ComparisonRef SCONJ feel VERB be AUX subordinating ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1274

Aligned Sentences in other Corpora (1–1 of 1)

Sentence ID Sentence Language Sentence Text
lpp_1943_zh-1274 Mandarin Chinese 应该保护灯焰：一阵风就可能把它吹灭…

Metadata

languageEnglish
corpusthe little prince (english)0.9
genre
document IDlpp_1943_en_ch-24
orthography
raw textI felt the need of protecting him , as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind ...
tokenizedI felt the need of protecting him , as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind ...
MWE markupI felt the need of protecting him , as_if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind ...