The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 107
When he woke his first thoughts were for the girl, whom he found hard at work.
Who acts: door, first thoughts · What happens: wake, be, find, think · To what, where: girl, work
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, first thoughts), 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 | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 thoughts | amod |
| 6 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 girl | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 girl | cop |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 girl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whom | punct |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 found | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 girl | acl:relcl |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 found | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 work | case |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | door's first thoughts | for the girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | past | door | the girl | work | hard property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent whom=Theme at work=Asset | ||
| 4 | think | door | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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