The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 82

The night passed, and when the day began to dawn, the witch awakened her husband, crying:

Who acts: night, day, witch · What happens: pass, begin, awaken, cry · To what, where: husband

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, day, witch), 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 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 awakened	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 awakened	cc
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 began	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 awakened	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dawn	mark
11	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 witch	det
14	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 awakened	nsubj
15	awakened	awaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 awakened	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crying	punct
19	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 awakened	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pass	past	the night			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the day		dawn	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	awaken	past	the witch	witch's husband		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location husband=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the witch not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 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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