More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 35
That was rather better, but he could not get comfortably in it, so after turning about a little while he got up and went to the little bed; and that was so soft and so warm and so nice that he fell fast asleep at once.
Who acts: That, Scrapefoot · What happens: be, not get, turn, get up, go, fall · To what, where: room, little bed
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Scrapefoot), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 better | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 4 better | advmod |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 get | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 get | advmod |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | parataxis |
| 11 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 turning | advmod |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 turning | mark |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 get | parataxis |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 little | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 little | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 turning | obl |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 got | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 got | nsubj |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turning | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 got | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 got | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 bed | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bed | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bed | amod |
| 30 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 soft | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 soft | cc |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 soft | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 soft | cop |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 soft | advmod |
| 36 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 better | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 warm | cc |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 warm | advmod |
| 39 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 soft | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 nice | cc |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 nice | advmod |
| 42 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 soft | conj |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 fell | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 fell | nsubj |
| 45 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 nice | advcl |
| 46 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 asleep | advmod |
| 47 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 fell | xcomp |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 once | case |
| 49 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 45 fell | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | That | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get | could | Scrapefoot | room | comfortably property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | turn | gerund | about a little | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about little=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | get up | past | Scrapefoot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go | past | Scrapefoot not said here | the little bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | that | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | that not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | be | that not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | fall | past | Scrapefoot | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=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: «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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