The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 97
Someone at last awaked Moti with the news that his royal master was come; and he arose yawning, and was soon delightedly explaining and showing off his new possession.
Who acts: Someone, Moti · What happens: awak, come, arise, yawn, explain, show off · To what, where: Moti, royal master, new possession
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 (Someone, Moti), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 awaked | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Someone | nmod |
| 4 | awaked | awak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 awaked | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 news | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awaked | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 master | amod |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux:pass |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 news | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 arose | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arose | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 arose | nsubj |
| 18 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awaked | conj |
| 19 | yawning | yawn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 arose | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 explaining | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 explaining | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 explaining | aux |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 explaining | advmod |
| 24 | delightedly | delightedly | ADV | _ | 25 explaining | advmod |
| 25 | explaining | explain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 arose | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 showing | cc |
| 27 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 explaining | conj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 showing | compound:prt |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 possession | nmod:poss |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 possession | amod |
| 31 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 showing | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awak | participle | Someone | Moti | with the news | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past · passive | Moti's royal master | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arise | past | Moti | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | yawn | gerund | Moti not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | explain speech: assert | past · progressive | Moti not said here | delightedly, soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | show off | gerund | Moti not said here | Moti's new possession | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent possession=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | possess | Moti | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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 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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