The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 4

Although it was winter, the sun rose in a clear sky, and its rays felt almost warm when the poor man got up and shook himself.

Who acts: length, sun, rays, poor man · What happens: be, rise, feel, get up, shake, ray · To what, where: clear sky, man

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, sun, rays, poor man), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	4 winter	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 winter	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 winter	cop
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 winter	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 sky	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sky	det
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sky	amod
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 felt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 felt	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 rays	nmod:poss
16	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 warm	advmod
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 felt	xcomp
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 got	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 felt	advcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 got	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shook	cc
27	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 got	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 shook	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	length			although winter	tree rules
2	rise	past	the sun		a clear sky		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location
3	feel	past	length's rays			warm property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	get up	past	the poor man				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	shake	past	the poor man not said here	man			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	ray		length				nom ray «phenomenon 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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