The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 72

The clocks were striking twelve when John awoke.

Who acts: clocks, John · What happens: strike, awake · To what, where: twelve

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 (clocks, John), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clocks	det
2	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 striking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 striking	aux
4	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 striking	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 awoke	advmod
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 awoke	nsubj
8	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 striking	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 striking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past · progressive	the clocks	twelve					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
2	awake	past	John						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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