I was holding him close inLocus↝Locus myWhole↝Gestalt arms as ifComparisonRef↝ComparisonRef he were a little child ; and yet it seemed toExperiencer↝Goal me that he was rushing headlong towardDirection↝Direction an abyss fromTheme↝Source which I could do nothing toPurpose↝Purpose restrain him ...

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
(18996) I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ... Locus = Locus ADP close ADJ arm NOUN default ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1399
(18997) I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ... Whole ≠ Gestalt PRON arm NOUN possessive ✘ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1399
(18998) I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ... Experiencer ≠ Goal ADP seem VERB I PRON default ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1399
(18999) I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ... Direction = Direction ADP headlong VERB abyss NOUN default ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1399
(19000) I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ... Theme ≠ Source ADP do VERB which PRON default ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1399
(19001) I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ... Purpose = Purpose PART nothing PRON restrain VERB subordinating ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1399
(19002) I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ... ComparisonRef = ComparisonRef SCONJ hold VERB be AUX subordinating ✔ ✘ ✘ lpp_1943.1399

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

Sentence ID Sentence Language Sentence Text
lpp_1943_zh-1399 Mandarin Chinese 我把他当作小孩一样紧紧抱在怀里，可是我感觉到他径直地向着一个无底深渊沉陷下去，我想法拉住他，却怎么也办不到…

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languageEnglish
corpusthe little prince (english)0.9
genre
document IDlpp_1943_en_ch-26
orthography
raw textI was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ...
tokenizedI was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ...
MWE markupI was holding him close in my arms as_if he were a little child ; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him ...