The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 85

He awoke instantly, and the first word he said was, ‘Have you seen her?’

Who acts: lad · What happens: awake, say, see · To what, where: first word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 awoke	nsubj
2	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	2 awoke	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seen	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	nsubj:pass
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 word	acl:relcl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux:pass
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
14	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 awoke	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 awoke	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	awake	past	lad		instantly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	lad	the first word not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	see	past · perfect · passive		the first word		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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