The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 56
But a sleep as of death held her in its spell, and no noise seemed able to waken the sleeper.
Who acts: sleep, noise · What happens: hold, seem, waken, spell · To what, where: silence, spell, sleeper
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep, noise), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 held | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sleep | det |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 6 death | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sleep | nmod |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 held | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 spell | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 spell | nmod:poss |
| 11 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seemed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seemed | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 noise | det |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | conj |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 waken | mark |
| 19 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sleeper | det |
| 21 | sleeper | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waken | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | a sleep as death | silence | sleep's spell | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in spell=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | past | no noise | able property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | waken | to-infinitive | no noise not said here | the sleeper | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sleeper=Patient | ||||
| 4 | spell | sleep | nom spell «state 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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