The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 125
The old man slept very late that morning, and rubbed his eyes till he was properly awake.
Who acts: old man, prince · What happens: sleep, rub, be · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, prince), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 late | advmod |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slept | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 morning | mark |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 late | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rubbed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rubbed | cc |
| 11 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slept | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rubbed | obj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 awake | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 awake | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 awake | cop |
| 17 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 18 awake | advmod |
| 18 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rubbed | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the old man | late property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | prince's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | prince | awake, properly property | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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