The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 91
In the middle of the night he woke hearing a great outcry, and he jumped up and clothed himself and went into the hall, where the maiden was standing.
Who acts: horse, maiden · What happens: wake, hear, jump up, clothe, go, stand · To what, where: middle, great outcry, horse, hall
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, maiden), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woke | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 woke | nsubj |
| 8 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 woke | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 outcry | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 outcry | amod |
| 12 | outcry | outcry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hearing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jumped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 jumped | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 jumped | nsubj |
| 16 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woke | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 jumped | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 clothed | cc |
| 19 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 jumped | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 clothed | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woke | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 hall | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hall | det |
| 25 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 standing | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 standing | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 maiden | det |
| 29 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 standing | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 standing | aux |
| 31 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 went | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | horse | the middle of the night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | horse not said here | a great outcry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer outcry=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | jump up | past | horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | clothe | past | horse not said here | horse | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go | past | horse not said here | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | stand | past · progressive | the maiden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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