The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 51
At the first blast, the fox, which was asleep in the cage in the courtyard, awoke, and knew that his master needed help.
Who acts: fox, master · What happens: be, awake, know, need · To what, where: cage, first blast, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, master), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 blast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blast | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 blast | amod |
| 4 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 awoke | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fox | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blast | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asleep | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 asleep | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asleep | cop |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fox | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cage | det |
| 14 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asleep | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 courtyard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 courtyard | det |
| 17 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cage | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blast | punct |
| 19 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 knew | cc |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 awoke | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 needed | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 master | nmod:poss |
| 25 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 needed | nsubj |
| 26 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 knew | ccomp |
| 27 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 needed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fox | the cage in the courtyard | asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | awake | past | the first blast and the fox | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at blast=Location | |||||
| 3 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | need | past | fox's master | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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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