The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 7

As he drew near, he rubbed his eyes hard, thinking he was dreaming, for there it was, beautifully thatched, just as the giant had wished.

Who acts: king · What happens: draw, rub, think, dream, thatch, wish · To what, where: eyes, byre, giant

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rubbed	advcl
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rubbed	nsubj
7	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rubbed	obj
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rubbed	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thinking	punct
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 rubbed	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dreaming	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dreaming	aux
15	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 thinking	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thatched	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 there	case
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 thatched	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thatched	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thatched	aux
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thatched	punct
22	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	23 thatched	advmod
23	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 dreaming	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wished	punct
25	just	just	ADV	_	30 wished	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 wished	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 giant	det
28	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wished	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wished	aux
30	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 thatched	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past	king		near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rub	past	king	king's eyes	hard property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund	king not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dream	past · progressive	king			vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	thatch	past · passive		byre	beautifully property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
6	wish	past · perfect · passive		the giant		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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