The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 245

He was in despair, when suddenly he looked up and saw that the tree under which he had been sleeping was a superb plum, covered with fruit as yellow as gold.

Who acts: John, tree · What happens: be, look up, see, sleep, cover · To what, where: despair, tree, superb plum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, tree), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 despair	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 despair	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 despair	case
4	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 despair	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 looked	advmod
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 despair	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 looked	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 plum	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plum	nsubj
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sleeping	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sleeping	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sleeping	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 sleeping	aux
21	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 tree	acl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 plum	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 plum	det
24	superb	superb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 plum	amod
25	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 covered	punct
27	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 plum	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 fruit	case
29	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 covered	obl
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 yellow	case
31	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fruit	amod
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 gold	case
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 yellow	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 despair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	John		despair		tree rules
2	look up	past	John			suddenly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	John not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	sleep	past · perfect · progressive	John		the tree		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the tree	a superb plum			tree rules
6	cover	participle		a superb plum not said here		with fruit	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fruit=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 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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