The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 102
Nothing could waken him, not even the sound of sweetest music, nor the touch of a lady who bent over him.
Who acts: Nothing, lady · What happens: waken, bend, touch · To what, where: robber, lady
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, lady), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 waken | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 waken | aux |
| 3 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waken | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sound | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sound | advmod |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 sound | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waken | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 music | case |
| 11 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 music | amod |
| 12 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 touch | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 touch | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 touch | det |
| 16 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waken | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 lady | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lady | det |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touch | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 bent | nsubj |
| 21 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lady | acl:relcl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bent | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waken | could | Nothing | robber | the sound of sweetest music obl; the touch of a lady obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | bend | past | a lady | over robber | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location | ||||
| 3 | touch | a lady | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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