The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 47
In the middle of the night he woke, feeling that he had been disturbed, and putting his hand under his pillow found to his horror that his bag of money had been stolen.
Who acts: Moti, putting · What happens: wake, feel, disturb, put, find, steal · To what, where: middle, Moti, hand, pillow, bag · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Moti, putting), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woke | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 woke | nsubj |
| 8 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feeling | punct |
| 10 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 woke | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 disturbed | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 disturbed | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 15 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 feeling | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 18 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 found | csubj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 putting | obj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 pillow | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 23 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 putting | obl |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woke | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 horror | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 horror | nmod:poss |
| 27 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 stolen | mark |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bag | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 money | case |
| 32 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bag | nmod |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 stolen | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 stolen | aux:pass |
| 35 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 found | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | Moti | the middle of the night | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | Moti not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | disturb | past · perfect · passive | Moti | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | put | gerund | Moti's hand | Moti's pillow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme under pillow=Destination | ||||
| 5 | find | past | putting | to Moti's horror | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | steal | past · perfect · passive | Moti's bag of money | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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