The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 56
At night they slept under a fig tree, and when the sun rose started on their way.
Who acts: peas · What happens: sleep, start · To what, where: fig tree, way
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 (peas), 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 | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 started | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 rose | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 started | aux:pass |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slept | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 started | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | peas = pea | a fig tree | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | start | past · passive | peas = pea not said here | peas's way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V» |
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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