The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 76
Toueno had been asleep, and only opened his eyes as they entered.
Who acts: Toueno · What happens: be, open, enter · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toueno), 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 | Toueno | Toueno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asleep | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 asleep | cop |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 opened | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 opened | advmod |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 opened | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 entered | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Toueno | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Toueno not said here | escape's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | Toueno | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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