The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 18
Their sound awoke the witch, who cried out as before:
Who acts: sound, witch · What happens: awake, cry out · To what, where: witch
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, witch), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sound | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 witch | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cried | compound:prt |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 before | case |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 cried | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | arms's sound | the witch | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location witch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the witch | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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