The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 16
Soon after, one of the slaves woke up and looked for the dates, but there were no dates to see.
Who acts: one, dates · What happens: wake up, look, be, see
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, dates), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 one | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 woke | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 slaves | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slaves | det |
| 7 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 woke | obl |
| 8 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 woke | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woke | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 dates | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dates | det |
| 14 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 were | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 were | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 were | expl |
| 18 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woke | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 dates | det |
| 20 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 were | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 dates | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | one | of the slaves | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | one not said here | for the dates | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for date=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no dates | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | no dates not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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