The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 120
Early in the morning his master awoke, and behold! there hung such robes as he had never seen before, all shining with gold and silver and precious stones.
Who acts: master, Prince, all · What happens: awake, hang, not see, shine · To what, where: such robes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, Prince, all), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 behold | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 behold | cc |
| 10 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 13 hung | discourse |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 behold | punct |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hung | advmod |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awoke | advcl |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 robes | amod |
| 15 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hung | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 seen | advmod |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 hung | advcl |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 seen | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shining | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 shining | nsubj |
| 24 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 seen | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shining | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 silver | cc |
| 28 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gold | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stones | cc |
| 30 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stones | amod |
| 31 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gold | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Prince's master | morning | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hang | past | Prince's master not said here | such robes | there | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient | |||
| 3 | not see | past · perfect | Prince | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | all | with gold and silver and precious stones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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