The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 14
Little Lasse rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and looked around him.
Who acts: Little Lasse · What happens: rub, look · To what, where: sleep, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Lasse), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lasse | amod |
| 2 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbed | nsubj |
| 3 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sleep | det |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rubbed | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rubbed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rubbed | conj |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | Little Lasse | the sleep | Lasse's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme out eye=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | past | Little Lasse not said here | around Lasse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=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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