--- title: Once asleep, nothing was able to wake him; neither the brightness of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Once asleep, nothing was able to wake him; neither the brightness of the sun, nor the songs of the birds, nor the noise of Ludovine’s golden coach, nor the cries of the landlady who sought him in every place she could think of. Who acts: nothing, landlady, Ludovine, birds. A sentence of «The Green F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/81/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/) / 81 # The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 81 Once asleep, nothing was able to wake him; neither the brightness of the sun, nor the songs of the birds, nor the noise of Ludovine’s golden coach, nor the cries of the landlady who sought him in every place she could think of. **Who acts:** nothing, landlady, Ludovine, birds, golden coach · **What happens:** be, wake, seek, think, sing, noise · **To what, where:** bird, place This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, landlady, Ludovine, birds), 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:pg7277:22:81 # text = Once asleep, nothing was able to wake him; neither the brightness of the sun, nor the songs of the birds, nor the noise of Ludovine’s golden coach, nor the cries of the landlady who sought him in every place she could think of. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ _ 2 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 13 cc:preconj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 brightness brightness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 Ludovine Ludovine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 36 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cries cry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 landlady landlady NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 45 det _ _ 45 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 parataxis _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | nothing | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **wake** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | bird | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 3 | **seek** | past | the landlady | bird | | every place | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in place=Location | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | could | Ludovine | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sing** | | the birds | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **noise** | | Ludovine's golden coach | | | | | | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **cry** | | the landlady | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/82/) - ↑ back to [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/)