The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 76

Stretching himself, he awoke slowly, and here he was in the green forest, and instead of the glow of the fire in the underworld the sun was streaming on him, and he sat up wondering why he felt so strange.

Who acts: friend, sun, fire · What happens: stretch, awake, be, stream, sit up, wonder · To what, where: friend, green forest, underworld · 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 (friend, sun, fire), 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	Stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 awoke	advcl
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Stretching	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stretching	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 awoke	nsubj
5	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 awoke	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forest	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 forest	cc
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 forest	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 forest	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 forest	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 forest	amod
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 awoke	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 glow	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 glow	cc
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 glow	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 glow	det
21	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 awoke	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 glow	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 underworld	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 underworld	det
27	underworld	underworld	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 glow	nmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun	det
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 streaming	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 streaming	aux
31	streaming	stream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 underworld	acl:relcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 streaming	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sat	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sat	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sat	nsubj
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 awoke	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 sat	compound:prt
39	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 sat	advcl
40	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	42 felt	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 felt	nsubj
42	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 wondering	ccomp
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 strange	advmod
44	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 felt	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	gerund	friend not said here	friend			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	awake	past	friend			instead the glow of the fire in the underworld; slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	friend		the green forest; here		tree rules
4	stream	past · progressive	the sun	the underworld not said here		on friend	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location underworld=Theme
5	sit up	past	friend				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	friend not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	feel	past	friend			strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
8	glow		the fire		the underworld		nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent in=place

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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