The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 21
When he awoke, neither wood nor fire was to be seen, and he did not know where he was.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: awake, see, not know, be · To what, where: wood · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stranger), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 5 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 seen | cc:preconj |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 fire | cc |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wood | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 seen | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 awoke | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 awoke | conj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 know | ccomp |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 where | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 where | cop |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | stranger | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | wood nor fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | stranger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | stranger | where 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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