The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 118
So before the sun rose he got up and went to the house of the Gruagach, who was sitting outside.
Who acts: sun, house · What happens: rise, get up, go, sit · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, house), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 rose | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 rose | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 got | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Gruagach | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Gruagach | det |
| 16 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sitting | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sitting | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sitting | aux |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 house | acl |
| 21 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 20 sitting | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get up | past | sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the sun not said here | the house of the Gruagach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sit | past · progressive | the house of the Gruagach | outside property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/118/