The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 17

The next morning when he awoke he remembered the promise, and wanted to see if it had come true.

Who acts: Hunter, promise · What happens: awake, remember, want, see, come · To what, where: promise

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, promise), 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	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remembered	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 awoke	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 awoke	nsubj
6	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	advcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remembered	nsubj
8	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 promise	det
10	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remembered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 see	ccomp
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 come	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	Hunter				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remember	past	Hunter	the promise	morning		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
3	want	past	Hunter not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hunter not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	promise			true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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