The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 7

Once, when they had slept all night in the wood and had been wakened by the morning sun, they perceived a beautiful child in a shining white robe sitting close to their resting-place.

Who acts: roses, morning sun, shining white robe · What happens: sleep, waken, perceive, shine, sit · To what, where: wood, beautiful child, shining white robe

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, morning sun, shining white robe), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 slept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 slept	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slept	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slept	aux
6	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	obl:unmarked
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wakened	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wakened	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 wakened	aux:pass
15	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 slept	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 sun	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sun	compound
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wakened	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 perceived	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 perceived	nsubj
22	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wakened	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 child	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 child	amod
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perceived	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 robe	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 robe	det
28	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 robe	amod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 robe	amod
30	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perceived	obl
31	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 robe	acl
32	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 sitting	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 place	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 place	nmod:poss
35	resting	resting	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 place	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 resting	punct
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 close	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · perfect	roses = rose		the wood	night	once property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
2	waken	past · perfect · passive	the morning sun					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	perceive	past	roses = rose	a beautiful child	a shining white robe			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	gerund	a shining white robe not said here				close 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 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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