The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 22

He rubbed his eyes, and began to recall the events of the night, thinking he must have been dreaming; but for all that, he could not make out how he came to be in this place.

Who acts: stranger · What happens: rub, begin, recall, think, dream, not make out · To what, where: eyes, events, place · 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rubbed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rubbed	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 recall	mark
9	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 events	det
11	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 recall	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 events	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thinking	punct
16	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 recall	advcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dreaming	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dreaming	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 dreaming	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 dreaming	aux
21	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 thinking	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 make	cc
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 make	obl
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 all	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 all	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 make	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 make	advmod
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rubbed	parataxis
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 make	compound:prt
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 came	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 make	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	40 place	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 place	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 place	case
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 place	det
40	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rub	past	stranger	stranger's eyes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	begin	past	stranger not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	recall	to-infinitive	stranger not said here	the events of the night			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund	stranger not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	dream	must · perfect · progressive	stranger				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	not make out	could	stranger			for all	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
7	come	past	stranger				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	to-infinitive	stranger not said here		this place		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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