The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 32

With a loud shriek he sprang up to do battle with his enemy, when he saw that it was rays of the sun which had wakened him.

Who acts: noise, battle · What happens: spring up, do, see, be, waken · To what, where: battle, rays, sun

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, battle), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 shriek	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shriek	det
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shriek	amod
4	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sprang	nsubj
6	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sprang	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sprang	xcomp
10	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 enemy	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 enemy	nmod:poss
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprang	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 rays	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rays	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rays	cop
21	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 saw	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sun	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rays	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 wakened	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wakened	aux
27	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 sun	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wakened	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	noise		with a loud shriek	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	noise not said here	battle	with noise's enemy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
3	see	past	noise			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	battle	rays	of the sun	tree rules
5	waken	past · perfect · passive		the sun		tree rules

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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