The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 219

When the dawn broke they rose up and cooked more rice, and drank more water.

Who acts: dawn, legs · What happens: break, rise up, cook, drink · To what, where: more rice, more water

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 (dawn, legs), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 broke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dawn	det
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rose	advcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rose	nsubj
6	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 rose	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cooked	cc
9	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rose	conj
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 rice	amod
11	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cooked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drank	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drank	cc
14	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rose	conj
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drank	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	break	past	the dawn		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	rise up	past	legs = leg		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cook	participle	legs = leg not said here	more rice	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
4	drink	past	legs = leg not said here	more water	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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