The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 10
The sleeper did not wait to be asked twice, but rose at once and followed the stranger.
Who acts: sleeper · What happens: not wait, ask, rise, follow · To what, where: stranger
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleeper), 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 | 2 sleeper | det |
| 2 | sleeper | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 asked | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | aux:pass |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wait | advcl |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 asked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 rose | cc |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 rose | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 followed | cc |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rose | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stranger | det |
| 18 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 followed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | the sleeper | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive · passive | the sleeper not said here | twice property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location | ||||||
| 4 | follow | past | the stranger | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme |
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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