Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 130
When the prince awoke in the early morning, he was not a little surprised at finding himself high up above the clouds.
Who acts: prince · What happens: awake, not be, find · To what, where: prince, clouds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 morning | det |
| 7 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 surprised | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 surprised | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 surprised | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 surprised | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 surprised | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 awoke | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 17 finding | mark |
| 17 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 surprised | advcl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 finding | obj |
| 19 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 up | advmod |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 finding | advmod |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 clouds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 clouds | det |
| 23 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 finding | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the prince | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | prince | a little obl:unmarked; surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | prince not said here | prince | the clouds | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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