The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 31
After a little time he was aroused; he awoke and, rubbing his eyes, saw a ready-made ship at his side, and at once got into it.
Who acts: Simpleton · What happens: arouse, awake, rub, see, make, get · To what, where: Simpleton, eyes, made ship, side
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simpleton), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aroused | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 aroused | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 aroused | aux:pass |
| 7 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 awoke | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 awoke | nsubj |
| 10 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 aroused | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rubbing | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rubbing | punct |
| 13 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 awoke | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rubbing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 awoke | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 made | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ready | punct |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ship | amod |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 side | nmod:poss |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ship | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 got | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 got | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 once | case |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 got | obl |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 aroused | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | past · passive | Simpleton | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | Simpleton | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rub | gerund | Simpleton not said here | Simpleton's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Simpleton not said here | a made ship | Simpleton's side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 6 | get | participle | side | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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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