More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 97
They shine in my own face o' nights till I can't sleep for them.
Who acts: homewards, I · What happens: shine, not sleep · To what, where: own face
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (homewards, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shine | nsubj |
| 2 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 face | amod |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shine | obl |
| 7 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 nights | case |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 nights | punct |
| 9 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shine | obl |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nsubj |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sleep | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sleep | advmod |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 shine | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | homewards = homeward | my own face | night | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location | |||
| 2 | not sleep | can | I | for homewards = homeward | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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