The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 132

When they awoke, the sun was high in the heavens, the tempest had cased, and only the swell of the sea rose in silvery heavings against the red rock.

Who acts: things, sun, heavens, swell · What happens: awake, be, case, rise · To what, where: heavens, tempest, silvery heavings

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, sun, heavens, swell), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 high	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 high	cop
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 awoke	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 heavens	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heavens	det
11	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 high	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cased	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tempest	det
14	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cased	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cased	aux
16	cased	case	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 heavens	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rose	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rose	cc
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 swell	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 swell	det
21	swell	swell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rose	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swell	nmod
25	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 heavings	case
27	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 heavings	amod
28	heavings	heaving	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rose	obl
29	against	against	ADP	_	32 rock	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rock	det
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rock	amod
32	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rose	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	awake	past	things = thing				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the sun		the heavens	high property	tree rules
3	case	past · perfect · passive	the heavens not said here	the tempest			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	rise	past	the swell of the sea		silvery heavings	against the red rock	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heaving=Location

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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