The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 88

When he sat up and rubbed his eyes, there was no wife by his side, and when he asked the little ones what was become of their mother, they said they saw the room full of nice little men and women, dressed in white and red and green, and their mother in the middle of them, going out by the door as if she was walking in her sleep.

Who acts: husband, eyes, wife · What happens: sit up, rub, be, ask, become, say · To what, where: wife, eyes, little ones, room, white, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (husband, eyes, wife), 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 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rubbed	cc
6	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rubbed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 side	nmod:poss
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 asked	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ones	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ones	amod
24	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 asked	obj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 become	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 become	aux:pass
27	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ones	acl:relcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 mother	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 become	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	ccomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 room	det
37	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saw	obj
38	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 room	amod
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 men	case
40	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 men	amod
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 men	amod
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 full	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 women	cc
44	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 men	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 dressed	punct
46	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 room	acl
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 white	case
48	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 dressed	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 red	cc
50	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 white	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 green	cc
52	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 white	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 mother	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 mother	cc
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 mother	nmod:poss
56	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 middle	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 middle	det
59	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 mother	nmod
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 them	case
61	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 middle	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 going	punct
63	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
64	out	out	ADP	_	63 going	compound:prt
65	by	by	ADP	_	67 door	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 door	det
67	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 going	obl
68	as	as	SCONJ	_	72 walking	mark
69	if	if	SCONJ	_	72 walking	mark
70	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 walking	nsubj
71	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 walking	aux
72	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
73	in	in	ADP	_	75 sleep	case
74	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 sleep	nmod:poss
75	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 walking	obl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	husband	no wife		by husband's side	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme by side=Location
2	rub	past	husband not said here	husband's eyes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	be	past	husband not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	husband	the little ones			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
5	become	past · passive		the little ones		of eyes's mother	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
6	say speech: assert	past	eyes = eye				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	see	past	eyes = eye	the room			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus
8	dress	participle		the room not said here	white		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	go out	gerund	husband not said here			by the door	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	walk	past · progressive	wife		wife's sleep		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Trajectory
11	sleep		wife				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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