The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 31
When the young couple woke up, they found themselves back in the old castle, without their snuff-box.
Who acts: young couple, servants · What happens: wake up, find back · To what, where: servants, old castle
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young couple, servants), 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 | 5 woke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 couple | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 couple | amod |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woke | nsubj |
| 5 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 woke | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 woke | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 found | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 castle | amod |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 box | punct |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 box | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 box | nmod:poss |
| 19 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 box | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 snuff | punct |
| 21 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | the young couple | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | find back | past | servants = servant | servants = servant | the old castle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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