The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 24
“I really must have some sleep first,” replied Paperarello, stretching himself and yawning; and he flung himself on his bed, and was fast asleep in a moment.
Who acts: Paperarello · What happens: have, reply, stretch, yawn, fling, be · To what, where: sleep, Paperarello, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paperarello), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 sleep | det |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 have | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Paperarello | Paperarello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stretching | punct |
| 14 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | advcl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 stretching | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 yawning | cc |
| 17 | yawning | yawn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stretching | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 flung | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flung | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flung | nsubj |
| 21 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 flung | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bed | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flung | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 asleep | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 asleep | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 asleep | cop |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 asleep | advmod |
| 30 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flung | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 moment | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 moment | det |
| 33 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 asleep | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | must | Paperarello | some sleep | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Paperarello | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stretch | gerund | Paperarello not said here | Paperarello | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | yawn | gerund | Paperarello not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fling | past | Paperarello | Paperarello | Paperarello's bed | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on bed=Destination | |||
| 6 | is | past | Paperarello not said here | moment | asleep, fast property | tree rules |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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