The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 50
And they woke him, and he sat up and saw many snakes all round him, and one of them very beautiful, decked in royal robes.
Who acts: soldiers, King, many snakes · What happens: wake, sit up, see, round, deck · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, King, many snakes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 woke | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sat | conj |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snakes | amod |
| 13 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 round | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 round | advmod |
| 15 | round | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 round | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beautiful | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 beautiful | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woke | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 decked | punct |
| 25 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 beautiful | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 robes | case |
| 27 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 robes | amod |
| 28 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 decked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | soldiers = soldier | King | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sit up | past | King | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | round | present | many snakes | King | all property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 5 | deck | participle | soldiers = soldier not said here | in royal robes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in robe=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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