The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 58
He woke very early, and as he saw Omar sleeping quietly, with a happy smile on his face, a wish arose in his mind to take by force or by cunning the things which an unkind fate had denied him.
Who acts: friend, Omar, happy smile · What happens: wake, see, sleep, arise, take, cunn · To what, where: Omar, mind, things, unkind fate
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, Omar, happy smile), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 woke | nsubj |
| 2 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 early | advmod |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 woke | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 woke | conj |
| 10 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 11 sleeping | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smile | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 smile | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smile | det |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 smile | amod |
| 17 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arose | nsubj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smile | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wish | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wish | det |
| 23 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arose | nsubj |
| 24 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mind | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mind | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arose | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 take | mark |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 arose | advcl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 force | case |
| 31 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obl |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 cunning | cc |
| 33 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 34 cunning | mark |
| 34 | cunning | cunn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 force | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 things | det |
| 36 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 cunning | obj |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 denied | obj |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fate | det |
| 39 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fate | amod |
| 40 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 denied | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 denied | aux |
| 42 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 things | acl:relcl |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 denied | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | friend | early property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | friend | Omar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | Omar not said here | quietly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | arise | past | a happy smile on friend's face | friend's mind | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | a happy smile on friend's face not said here | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | cunn | gerund | a happy smile on friend's face not said here | the things | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | deny | past · perfect · passive | a unkind fate | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | mind | friend | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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