The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 11
The sun had set when he awoke and began once more to try and find his way out of the forest.
Who acts: man · What happens: set, awake, begin, try, find · To what, where: sun, more, way, forest
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 awoke | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 began | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 try | mark |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | awake | past | man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | more | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | find | infinitive | man's way | the forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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