The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 51

I did not sleep but kept watch all night.”

Who acts: I · What happens: not sleep, keep, watch

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sleep	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	conj
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kept	xcomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watch	obl:unmarked
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	not sleep	past · do-support	I		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	I not said here		tree rules
3	watch	infinitive	I not said here	night	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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: «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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