The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 5

How long he slept, I cannot tell you, but after awhile he became aware that some one was gently shaking him, while a stranger whispered, ‘My good man, get up!

Who acts: man, I, one, stranger · What happens: sleep, not tell, become, shake, whisper, get up · To what, where: you, man, good man · 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 (man, I, one, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 slept	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slept	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 became	cc
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 awhile	case
14	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	16 became	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	parataxis
17	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 shaking	mark
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shaking	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shaking	aux
22	gently	gently	ADV	_	23 shaking	advmod
23	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 aware	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shaking	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 whispered	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 whispered	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stranger	det
28	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 whispered	nsubj
29	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 became	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 man	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 man	punct
32	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 man	nmod:poss
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 whispered	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 get	punct
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 whispered	ccomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 get	compound:prt
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	man			long property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	become	past	man			aware property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	shake	past · progressive	some one	man		gently property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	whisper speech: assert	past	a stranger	My good man			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	get up	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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