The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 105
When he woke the girl had disappeared, and the byre was so clean that a golden apple could roll from end to end of it.
Who acts: youth, byre, golden apple · What happens: wake, disappear, be, roll · To what, where: girl, end
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, byre, golden apple), 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 woke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | obj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 disappeared | aux |
| 7 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 girl | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clean | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 clean | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 byre | det |
| 11 | byre | byre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clean | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 clean | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 clean | advmod |
| 14 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woke | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 roll | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 apple | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 apple | amod |
| 18 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roll | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 roll | aux |
| 20 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 clean | advcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roll | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roll | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 end | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | youth | the girl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect | the girl not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the byre | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | roll | could | a golden apple | from end; to end of byre | vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from end=Initial_Location to end=Destination |
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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