The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 23
The noise awakened the comrade above, and he came downstairs.
Who acts: noise · What happens: awaken, come · To what, where: comrade
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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 noise | det |
| 2 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awakened | nsubj |
| 3 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 comrade | det |
| 5 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awakened | obj |
| 6 | above | above | ADV | _ | 3 awakened | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | conj |
| 11 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past | the noise | the comrade | above property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location comrade=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | noise | downstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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