The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 289
And when he woke, behold! that also was no dream, but the truth.
Who acts: man, that · What happens: wake, be · To what, where: dream
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 woke | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 woke | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 behold | punct |
| 6 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 4 woke | discourse |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 dream | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 dream | nsubj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 dream | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dream | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 dream | det |
| 12 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 truth | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 truth | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | that | no dream | 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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