The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 65
As soon as I awoke I jumped up, and hurried to tell my brother all that had happened, but he had left his room, and his servant told me that he had gone out at daybreak to hunt with the stranger.
Who acts: I, that, brother, servant · What happens: awake, jump up, hurry, tell, happen, leave · To what, where: brother, room, me, daybreak · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that, brother, servant), 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 | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 jumped | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 awoke | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 jumped | nsubj |
| 7 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 jumped | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hurried | cc |
| 11 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 jumped | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hurried | xcomp |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 happened | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 happened | aux |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 tell | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 jumped | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 room | nmod:poss |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 told | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 told | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 servant | nmod:poss |
| 30 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 told | nsubj |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 jumped | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 told | iobj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 gone | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gone | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 gone | aux |
| 36 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 told | ccomp |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 gone | compound:prt |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 daybreak | case |
| 39 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gone | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 hunt | mark |
| 41 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 gone | advcl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 stranger | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 stranger | det |
| 44 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hunt | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | I | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | jump up | past | I | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurry | participle | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | my brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave | past · perfect | brother | brother's room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | past | brother's servant | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | go out | past · perfect | servant | daybreak | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | hunt | to-infinitive | servant not said here | with the stranger | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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