More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 145
To-night," said he, "I will give you rest; there shall nothing come to disturb you, so that you may not feel sleepy for to-morrow.
Who acts: man, I, you, nothing · What happens: say, give, rest, come, disturb, not feel · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I, you, nothing), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 rest | nsubj |
| 14 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 come | expl |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 come | nsubj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 disturb | mark |
| 21 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 disturb | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feel | punct |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 feel | mark |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 feel | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 feel | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 feel | advmod |
| 29 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | conj |
| 30 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feel | xcomp |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 morrow | case |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 morrow | case |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 to | punct |
| 34 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sleepy | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | night | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rest | present | you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | shall | nothing | there | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | disturb | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | not feel | may | you | sleepy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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