The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 58
The sun was shining when he awoke, and he jumped up and ran to the pot.
Who acts: sun · What happens: shine, awake, jump up, run
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | aux |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 awoke | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 jumped | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 jumped | nsubj |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shining | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 jumped | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 jumped | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pot | det |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | awake | past | sun | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jump up | past | sun | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | past | sun not said here | to the pot result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pot=Result |
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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