The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 58

I had hardly dropped off to sleep when I was roused by the sound of some soft and charming music.

Who acts: I, sound · What happens: drop off, sleep, rouse · To what, where: I

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 (I, sound), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 dropped	advmod
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 dropped	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dropped	advcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 roused	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 roused	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 roused	aux:pass
11	roused	rouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dropped	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 sound	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sound	det
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 roused	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	20 music	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 music	det
17	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 music	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 charming	cc
19	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soft	conj
20	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sound	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drop off	past · perfect	I		hardly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rouse	past · passive	the sound of some soft music	I		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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