The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 73

The poor captive, when he awoke from his drunken sleep, tried to talk to them, but no one would listen to him, so he shut himself up altogether, and the people who came to stare took him for a dumb man of the woods.

Who acts: poor captive, one, captive, people · What happens: awake, try, talk, listen, shut up, come · To what, where: drunken sleep, strangers, captive

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor captive, one, captive, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captive	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 captive	amod
3	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awoke	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 captive	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 awoke	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 awoke	nsubj
7	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 sleep	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sleep	nmod:poss
10	drunken	drunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sleep	amod
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awoke	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awoke	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 talk	mark
15	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 talk	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 listen	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 listen	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 listen	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 listen	aux
23	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 awoke	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 listen	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shut	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 shut	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shut	nsubj
29	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awoke	conj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 shut	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 shut	compound:prt
32	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	29 shut	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 took	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 took	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 took	nsubj
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 people	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 stare	mark
40	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 came	xcomp
41	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awoke	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 took	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 man	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 man	det
45	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 man	amod
46	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 took	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 woods	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 woods	det
49	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 man	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	awake	past	the poor captive			captive's drunken sleep		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	the poor captive not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	the poor captive not said here		strangers = stranger			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
4	listen	would	no one		captive			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
5	shut up	past	captive	captive			altogether property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	come	past	the people					tree rules
7	stare	to-infinitive	the people not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	take	past	the people	captive			for a dumb man of the woods	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for man=Beneficiary
9	sleep		captive					nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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