More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 123
So then Jan's wife woke him up, and asked what they should do.
Who acts: wife, door · What happens: wake up, ask, do · To what, where: gentleman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, door), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 woke | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 woke | advmod |
| 3 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Jan | case |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woke | nsubj |
| 6 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 woke | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 woke | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woke | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | Jan's wife | gentleman | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Jan's wife not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | should | door | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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