The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 7
The sleeper slowly raised his head from his furs, and opened his heavy eyes.
Who acts: sleeper · What happens: raise, open · To what, where: head, furs, heavy eyes
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 | 4 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 raised | advmod |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 furs | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 furs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 raised | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opened | cc |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raised | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 opened | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the sleeper | sleeper's head | sleeper's furs | slowly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from fur=Destination | ||
| 2 | open | past | sleeper's heavy eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=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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