The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 43
When she thought he was fast asleep, she spoke to him, hoping he would answer in the midst of his dreams, as many people do; but he was wide awake all the time, and heard and understood everything very well.
Who acts: Princess, son, many people · What happens: think, be, speak, hope, answer, do · To what, where: son, midst, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, son, many people), 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 thought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoke | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asleep | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asleep | cop |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 asleep | advmod |
| 7 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spoke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hoping | punct |
| 14 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 spoke | advcl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 answer | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 answer | aux |
| 17 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hoping | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 midst | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 midst | det |
| 20 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answer | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dreams | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 midst | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 people | amod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 answer | parataxis |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 awake | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 awake | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 awake | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 awake | cop |
| 33 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 34 awake | advmod |
| 34 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spoke | parataxis |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 time | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 awake | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 heard | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 heard | cc |
| 40 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoke | parataxis |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 understood | cc |
| 42 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 heard | conj |
| 43 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 42 understood | obj |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 well | advmod |
| 45 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 understood | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Princess | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | son | asleep, fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | Princess | son | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | hope | gerund | Princess not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | would | son | the midst of son's dreams | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | do | present | many people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | son | time | awake, wide property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | hear | past | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 9 | understand | past | everything | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 10 | dream | son | nom dream «cognition transitive»: 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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