The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 180

Then the sun began to rise, and when she saw the red dawn she went to the end of the bed and looked at it, and as she was watching the sun rise, out of the window, she thought, ‘Ha! could I not make the sun and man rise?’

Who acts: sun, I · What happens: begin, rise, see, go, look, watch · To what, where: red dawn, window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rise	mark
6	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dawn	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dawn	amod
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dawn	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 bed	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bed	det
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 end	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 watching	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 watching	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 watching	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 watching	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 watching	aux
32	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sun	det
34	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rise	nsubj
35	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 watching	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 window	punct
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 window	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 window	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 window	det
40	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rise	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 thought	punct
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 thought	nsubj
43	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Ha	punct
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 Ha	punct
46	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	51 make	discourse
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	46 Ha	punct
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 make	aux
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 make	nsubj
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 make	advmod
51	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 thought	ccomp
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 sun	det
53	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 rise	nsubj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 man	cc
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sun	conj
56	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 make	xcomp
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	51 make	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	51 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the sun			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rise	to-infinitive	the sun not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	sun			dawn		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	past	sun	the red dawn not said here		to the end of the bed		tree rules
5	look	past	sun not said here				at bed	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
6	watch	past · progressive	sun					tree rules
7	rise	infinitive	the sun		the window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out window=Location
8	think speech: other	past	sun					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	not make	could	I					tree rules
10	not rise	infinitive	the sun and man					vn assuming_position-50 «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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