The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 69

He was still dozing when he was aroused by the neighing and pawing of his horse.

Who acts: horse · What happens: doze, arouse, neigh, paw · To what, where: horse

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (horse), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dozing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dozing	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 dozing	advmod
4	dozing	doze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 aroused	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 aroused	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 aroused	aux:pass
8	aroused	arouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dozing	ccomp
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 neighing	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 neighing	det
11	neighing	neigh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 aroused	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pawing	cc
13	pawing	paw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 neighing	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 horse	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horse	nmod:poss
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pawing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dozing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	doze	past · progressive	horse		still		tree rules
2	arouse	past · passive		horse			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	neigh	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	paw	gerund				of horse's horse	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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