The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 88
When she woke with the first steaks of light she felt something stirring under her.
Who acts: duck · What happens: wake, feel, stir · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 steaks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 steaks | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 steaks | amod |
| 7 | steaks | steak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 woke | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steaks | nmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 light | acl:relcl |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 felt | obj |
| 13 | stirring | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 something | acl |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stirring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | duck | with the first steaks of light | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with steak=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | duck | something | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stir | gerund | under duck | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under she=Location |
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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