The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 72
One day, when the sun was hotter even than usual, the rabbit awoke from his midday sleep, and saw Gudu the baboon standing beside him.
Who acts: sun, rabbit, baboon · What happens: be, awake, see, stand, sleep · To what, where: midday sleep, Gudu
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, rabbit, baboon), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hotter | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 hotter | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hotter | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hotter | cop |
| 8 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 usual | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 usual | case |
| 11 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hotter | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rabbit | det |
| 14 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 awoke | nsubj |
| 15 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sleep | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 18 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleep | compound |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 awoke | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 awoke | conj |
| 23 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 baboon | det |
| 25 | baboon | baboon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 baboon | acl |
| 27 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 standing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | the rabbit | Rabbit's midday sleep | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | the rabbit not said here | Gudu | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | the baboon not said here | beside Rabbit | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location | ||||
| 5 | sleep | Rabbit | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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