More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 10

But the squeaking and shrieking, the hurrying and scurrying, so that you could neither hear yourself speak nor get a wink of good honest sleep the live-long night!

Who acts: hurrying, you, yourself · What happens: scurry, hear, speak, get · To what, where: yourself, wink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hurrying, you, yourself), 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	_	3 squeaking	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 squeaking	det
3	squeaking	squeaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shrieking	cc
5	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeaking	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurrying	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hurrying	det
8	hurrying	hurrying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeaking	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scurrying	cc
10	scurrying	scurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hurrying	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 hear	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 hear	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
16	neither	neither	ADV	_	17 hear	advmod
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 scurrying	conj
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 hear	obj
19	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hear	xcomp
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 get	cc
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hear	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wink	det
23	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 sleep	case
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sleep	amod
26	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sleep	amod
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wink	nmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 night	det
29	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 long	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 live	punct
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 night	amod
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl:unmarked
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 squeaking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scurry	gerund	the hurrying not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	could	you	yourself		neither property	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	yourself not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	infinitive	you not said here	a wink of good honest sleep	night		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wink=Stimulus

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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