The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 86
And that night, while he was sleeping, there came a wise man, who was his father's friend, and awoke him saying: 'Danger lies very close to you, Manus, son of Oireal.
Who acts: Iarlaid, wise man, Danger · What happens: sleep, come, be, awake, say, lie · To what, where: friend, Iarlaid, Manus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iarlaid, wise man, Danger), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 night | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleeping | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 sleeping | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sleeping | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sleeping | aux |
| 8 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 night | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 came | expl |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friend | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 friend | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 friend | cop |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 awoke | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 awoke | cc |
| 24 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 awoke | obj |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 awoke | advcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 lies | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 lies | punct |
| 29 | Danger | Danger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 lies | nsubj |
| 30 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 saying | ccomp |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 close | advmod |
| 32 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lies | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 you | case |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 close | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Manus | punct |
| 36 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 lies | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 son | punct |
| 38 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Manus | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Oireal | case |
| 40 | Oireal | Oireal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 son | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · progressive | Iarlaid | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a wise man and Iarlaid's father's friend | there | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | past | a wise man and Iarlaid's father's friend | Iarlaid's father's friend | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | awake | past | a wise man and Iarlaid's father's friend not said here | Iarlaid | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | a wise man and Iarlaid's father's friend not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | lie | present | Danger | Manus | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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