The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 94
When he woke up he saw something strange lying on a bank a little way off, amidst long trails of pink roses.
Who acts: hermit · What happens: wake up, see, lie · To what, where: something, bank
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:810): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 something | amod |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 something | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 off | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 lying | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trails | punct |
| 18 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 20 trails | case |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trails | amod |
| 20 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lying | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 roses | case |
| 22 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 roses | amod |
| 23 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 trails | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | hermit | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | see | past | hermit | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a bank | amidst long trails of pink roses; off property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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