The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 8

When the man awoke in the morning he was much surprised to find the boy nestling up close to him.

Who acts: man, boy · What happens: awake, be, find, nestle · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, boy), 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 awoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 awoke	nsubj
4	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 surprised	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 awoke	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 surprised	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 surprised	cop
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 surprised	advmod
11	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 surprised	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
16	nestling	nestle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 boy	acl
17	up	up	ADV	_	18 close	advmod
18	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 nestling	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 close	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	the man		morning		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	man			surprised property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	man not said here	the boy			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
4	nestle	gerund	the boy not said here			close property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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