The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 139

It was now close on midnight, so Niels began his watch, and Rasmus went to sleep.

Who acts: sparrow, Niels, Rasmus · What happens: be, begin, go · To what, where: watch, sleep

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow, Niels, Rasmus), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 close	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 close	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 close	advmod
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 began	advmod
9	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 close	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 watch	nmod:poss
12	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
15	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 sleep	case
18	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sparrow			now; midnight	close property	tree rules
2	begin	past	Niels	Rasmus's watch				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Eventuality
3	go	past	Rasmus		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_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: «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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