The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 183

The fisherman was still half asleep, yet he was so frightened that he fell out of bed.

Who acts: fisherman, flounder · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: flounder, bed

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 (fisherman, flounder), 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	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asleep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 asleep	advmod
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 asleep	advmod
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frightened	punct
8	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	12 frightened	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 frightened	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 frightened	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 frightened	advmod
12	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 asleep	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 fell	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 frightened	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	18 bed	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 bed	case
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fisherman			still	asleep, half property	tree rules
2	is	past · passive		flounder			frightened property	tree rules
3	fall	past	flounder		bed			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out bed=Location

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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