The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 8

When he had slept again for many hours, he began to move and stretch himself.

Who acts: giant · What happens: sleep, begin, move, stretch · To what, where: giant

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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	4 slept	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	aux
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 began	advcl
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 slept	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hours	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hours	amod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 move	mark
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stretch	cc
15	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 move	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 stretch	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sleep	past · perfect	giant		again; hour	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	giant			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	move	to-infinitive	giant not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	stretch	infinitive	giant not said here	giant		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=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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