--- title: Stretching himself, he awoke slowly, and here he was in the green fo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Stretching himself, he awoke slowly, and here he was in the green forest, and instead of the glow of the fire in the underworld the sun was streaming on him, and he sat up wondering why he felt so strange. Who acts: friend, sun, fire. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, sun, fire), 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:pg641:25:76 # text = Stretching himself, he awoke slowly, and here he was in the green forest, and instead of the glow of the fire in the underworld the sun was streaming on him, and he sat up wondering why he felt so strange. 1 Stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 2 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 9 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 21 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 glow glow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 underworld underworld NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 streaming stream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 wondering wonder VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 advcl _ _ 40 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 ccomp _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch** | gerund | friend *not said here* | friend | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 2 | **awake** | past | friend | | | | | instead the glow of the fire in the underworld; slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | friend | | | the green forest; here | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stream** | past · progressive | the sun | the underworld *not said here* | | | | on friend | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location underworld=Theme | | 5 | **sit up** | past | friend | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **feel** | past | friend | | | | | strange *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **glow** | | the fire | | | the underworld | | | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent in=place | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/77/) - ↑ back to [The Underground Workers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/)