The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 108
In the middle of the night following the assembly of fairies, Queen Balanice woke up with a shriek, and when her maids of honour ran to see what was the matter, they found she had had a frightful dream.
Who acts: night, Queen, maids, matter · What happens: follow, wake up, run, see, find, have · To what, where: assembly, middle, frightful dream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Queen, maids, matter), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 woke | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 night | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 assembly | det |
| 9 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 following | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fairies | case |
| 11 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 assembly | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 middle | punct |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 woke | nsubj |
| 14 | Balanice | Balanice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Queen | flat |
| 15 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 woke | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 shriek | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shriek | det |
| 19 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 woke | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ran | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ran | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 ran | advmod |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 maids | nmod:poss |
| 24 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ran | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 honour | case |
| 26 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 maids | nmod |
| 27 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 woke | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ran | xcomp |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 what | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 matter | det |
| 33 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 was | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 found | punct |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 found | nsubj |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 woke | conj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 had | aux |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 found | ccomp |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 dream | det |
| 41 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 dream | amod |
| 42 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | the night not said here | the assembly of fairies | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wake up | past | Queen | the middle of the night | with a shriek | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shriek=Instrument | |||
| 3 | run | past | Queen's maids of honour | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Queen's maids of honour not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | find | past | maids = maid | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have | past · perfect | matter | a frightful dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient |
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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