The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 86

Late that night he was wakened up by the cries of his children calling out ‘Mother!

Who acts: cries, children · What happens: waken up, call out, cry · To what, where: night, Mother

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cries, children), 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	Late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wakened	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wakened	nsubj:pass
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wakened	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wakened	aux:pass
6	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 wakened	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 cries	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cries	det
10	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wakened	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 children	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cries	nmod
14	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 children	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 calling	compound:prt
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Mother	punct
17	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 calling	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 wakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	waken up	past · passive	the cries of husband's children	that night	late property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	call out speech: assert	gerund	husband's children not said here	Mother		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry		husband's children			nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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