The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 23
Rubbing his eyes, he stood up on the floor and stretched his great arms and gave a yawn which shook the walls.
Who acts: Stalo, yawn · What happens: rub, stand up, stretch, give, shake · To what, where: eyes, floor, great arms, yawn, walls
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stalo, yawn), 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 | Rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stood | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rubbing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rubbing | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 stood | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 floor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stretched | cc |
| 12 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 arms | amod |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stretched | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stretched | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 yawn | det |
| 19 | yawn | yawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 shook | nsubj |
| 21 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 yawn | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 walls | det |
| 23 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shook | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | gerund | Stalo not said here | Stalo's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand up | past | Stalo | the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | ||||
| 3 | stretch | past | Stalo not said here | Stalo's great arms | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Stalo not said here | a yawn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yawn=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shake | past | a yawn | the walls | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wall=Patient |
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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