The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 16

The weary tailor required no rocking to rest, but slept sound till early morning, when he was roused from his slumbers by a tremendous noise.

Who acts: weary tailor, tremendous noise, tailor · What happens: require, rest, sleep, rouse, slumber · To what, where: rocking, sound, tailor, slumbers

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weary tailor, tremendous noise, tailor), 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	3 tailor	det
2	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 required	nsubj
4	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 rocking	det
6	rocking	rocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 required	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rest	mark
8	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 required	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slept	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 required	conj
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obj
13	till	till	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 roused	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 roused	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 roused	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 roused	aux:pass
20	roused	rouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 required	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 slumbers	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 slumbers	nmod:poss
23	slumbers	slumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 roused	obl
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 noise	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 noise	det
26	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 noise	amod
27	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roused	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 required	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	require	past	the weary tailor	no rocking			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rocking=Recipient clause=Topic
2	rest	to-infinitive	the weary tailor not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	past	the weary tailor not said here	sound		morning	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
4	rouse	past · passive	a tremendous noise	tailor	tailor's slumbers		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5	slumber		tailor				nom slumber «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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