The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 33
When he awoke in the morning he began to seek mountain and valley to find such a flower.
Who acts: Joringel · What happens: awake, begin, seek, find · To what, where: morning, mountain, flower
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), 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 | root | root |
| 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 | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 morning | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 seek | mark |
| 10 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seek | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 valley | cc |
| 13 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mountain | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seek | advcl |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 flower | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 flower | det |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Joringel | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Joringel | the morning not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | Joringel not said here | mountain and valley | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | Joringel not said here | such flower | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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