The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 111
About midnight he was awakened by a noise, and peeping out he beheld a terrible ogress approaching.
Who acts: noise, beggar, terrible ogress · What happens: awaken, peep out, behold, approach · To what, where: midnight, terrible ogress
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, beggar, terrible ogress), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awakened | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awakened | aux:pass |
| 5 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 noise | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 noise | det |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awakened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beheld | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beheld | cc |
| 11 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 beheld | csubj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 peeping | compound:prt |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beheld | nsubj |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awakened | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ogress | det |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ogress | amod |
| 17 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beheld | obj |
| 18 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 ogress | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | a noise | midnight | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | peep out | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | behold | past | beggar | a terrible ogress | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ogress=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | approach | gerund | a terrible ogress not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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