--- title: He did not know how long he had slept when a sudden sound awoke him,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He did not know how long he had slept when a sudden sound awoke him, and opening his eyes he saw a black girl standing beside him. Who acts: Prince, sudden sound, black girl. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/) / 59 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 59 He did not know how long he had slept when a sudden sound awoke him, and opening his eyes he saw a black girl standing beside him. **Who acts:** Prince, sudden sound, black girl · **What happens:** not know, sleep, awake, open, see, stand · **To what, where:** Prince, eyes, black girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, sudden sound, black girl), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:25:59 # text = He did not know how long he had slept when a sudden sound awoke him, and opening his eyes he saw a black girl standing beside him. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 slept sleep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 opening open VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 27 beside beside ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Prince | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **sleep** | past · perfect | Prince | | | | | long *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **awake** | past | a sudden sound | Prince | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 4 | **open** | gerund | | Prince's eyes | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | Prince | a black girl | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | | 6 | **stand** | gerund | a black girl *not said here* | | | | | beside Prince | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/60/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)