The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 203
He was awakened by the singing of the birds, and his heart was lighter.
Who acts: singing, heart · What happens: awaken, be, sing · To what, where: Aladdin, birds
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singing, heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awakened | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | aux:pass |
| 3 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 singing | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 singing | det |
| 6 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awakened | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 birds | det |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 singing | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighter | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lighter | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lighter | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lighter | cop |
| 15 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 awakened | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | the singing of the birds | Aladdin | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Aladdin's heart | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing | the birds | nom singing «act transitive»: of=patient |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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