The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 83
When he awoke in the morning he always found his room tidied and put into such beautiful order that not a speck of dust was to be found anywhere.
Who acts: thing, room · What happens: awake, find, tidy, put · To what, where: such beautiful order, speck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, room), 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 | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 found | advmod |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 room | nmod:poss |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tidied | nsubj |
| 12 | tidied | tidy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 found | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tidied | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 order | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 order | amod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 order | amod |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 found | obj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 speck | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 speck | det |
| 22 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 dust | case |
| 24 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 speck | nmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 order | acl:relcl |
| 29 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 found | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | thing | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | thing | always property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tidy | participle | thing's room | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | put | participle | thing's room not said here | such beautiful order | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | find | past · passive | thing's room not said here | a speck of dust | anywhere property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme that=Attribute |
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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