The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 83
But the dragons had noticed their flight, and woke their brother out of his year’s sleep.
Who acts: year · What happens: notice, wake, sleep · To what, where: dragons, brother, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year), 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 | _ | 5 noticed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragons | det |
| 3 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | aux |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 flight | nmod:poss |
| 7 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 woke | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 woke | cc |
| 10 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woke | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sleep | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sleep | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 year | nmod:poss |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 year | case |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woke | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past · perfect · passive | the dragons | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wake | past | stables's brother | Prince's year's sleep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sleep | Prince's year | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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 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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