The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 82

As the clock struck twelve he woke, and his heart sank as he came down out of his tree and saw them laying the table for dinner.

Who acts: clock, bird, heart, clocks · What happens: strike, wake, sink, come down, see, lay · To what, where: twelve, tree, clocks, table

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 (clock, bird, heart, clocks), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 struck	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clock	det
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	nsubj
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woke	advcl
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 struck	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 woke	nsubj
7	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sank	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heart	nmod:poss
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sank	nsubj
12	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woke	advcl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sank	advcl
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 tree	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tree	nmod:poss
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woke	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	obj
24	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 saw	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 table	det
26	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laying	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 dinner	case
28	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laying	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the clock	twelve			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
2	wake	past	bird				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	sink	past	bird's heart				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	come down	past	bird		bird's tree	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out tree=Initial_Location
5	see	past	bird not said here	clocks = clock			tree rules
6	lay	gerund	clocks = clock not said here	the table		for dinner	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent table=Result for dinner=Beneficiary

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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