The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 48

The moon was already risen, and it was as light as day, when suddenly he heard a fearful noise, and at the same time a terrible desire to sleep overpowered him.

Who acts: moon, sleep · What happens: rise, be, hear, sleep, overpower · To what, where: moon, fearful noise, terrible desire

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (moon, sleep), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 risen	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 risen	aux:pass
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 risen	advmod
5	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 light	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 light	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 light	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 light	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 light	advmod
11	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 risen	parataxis
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 day	case
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 light	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 heard	advmod
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 heard	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 light	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 noise	det
20	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 noise	amod
21	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 overpowered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 overpowered	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 overpowered	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 desire	det
29	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 desire	amod
30	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 overpowered	nsubj:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sleep	mark
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 desire	acl
33	overpowered	overpower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 heard	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 overpowered	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 risen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past · passive		the moon			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	moon		day	light property	tree rules
3	hear	past	sleep	a fearful noise		suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
4	sleep	to-infinitive		a terrible desire not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	overpower	participle · passive		a terrible desire	time		tree rules

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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