The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 16
As soon as I awoke I sent for the gardener and asked him if the fruit on the three trees had not ripened in the night to perfection.
Who acts: I · What happens: awake, send, ask, not ripen · To what, where: gardener, fruit
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (I), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 sent | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 awoke | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 gardener | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gardener | det |
| 10 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 ripened | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fruit | det |
| 16 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ripened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trees | det |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 trees | nummod |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fruit | nmod |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ripened | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 ripened | advmod |
| 23 | ripened | ripen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 asked | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 night | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ripened | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 perfection | case |
| 28 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ripened | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | I | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | past | I | for the gardener; soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | I not said here | gardener | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not ripen a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the fruit on the three trees | night | to perfection | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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