The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 94
After some hours, he was awakened by a sudden noise, and sat up and looked about him.
Who acts: sudden noise · What happens: awaken, sit up, look · To what, where: Hans
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sudden noise), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 hours | det |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 awakened | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hours | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 awakened | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awakened | aux:pass |
| 7 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 noise | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 noise | det |
| 10 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 noise | amod |
| 11 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awakened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awakened | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 sat | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sat | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | a sudden noise | Hans | hour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit up | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | look | past | about Hans | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=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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