The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 115
But when the man spoke, he knew he was not dreaming, though he felt as if he had lost his senses.
Who acts: man · What happens: speak, know, not dream, feel, lose · To what, where: senses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knew | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dreaming | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dreaming | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dreaming | advmod |
| 12 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 felt | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knew | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 lost | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 lost | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 felt | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 senses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lost | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not dream | past · progressive | man | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | lose | past · perfect | man | man's senses | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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