The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 73
The first rays of the rising sun woke the happy tailor.
Who acts: first rays · What happens: rise, wake, ray · To what, where: happy tailor, rising sun
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 (first rays), 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 rays | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 rays | amod |
| 3 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 6 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sun | amod |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rays | nmod |
| 8 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tailor | det |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tailor | amod |
| 11 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woke | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | wake | past | the first rays of the rising sun | the happy tailor | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tailor=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ray | the rising sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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