The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 14

How long he remained in this condition he could not have told, but suddenly he awoke with a start, on hearing his name uttered softly.

Who acts: manner, name · What happens: remain, not tell, awake, hear, utter, name · To what, where: condition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, name), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 remained	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remained	nsubj
4	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 condition	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 condition	det
7	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 told	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	aux
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 condition	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 awoke	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 awoke	cc
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	17 awoke	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 awoke	nsubj
17	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remained	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 start	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 start	det
20	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 awoke	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hearing	punct
22	on	on	SCONJ	_	23 hearing	mark
23	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 awoke	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 name	nmod:poss
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 uttered	nsubj
26	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hearing	ccomp
27	softly	softly	ADV	_	26 uttered	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past	manner		this condition	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in condition=Location
2	not tell speech: assert	could · perfect	manner	this condition not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent condition=Recipient
3	awake	past	manner			with a start; suddenly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument
4	hear	gerund	manner not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	utter speech: other	past	manner's name			softly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	name		manner				nom name «communication transitive»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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