Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 3

The father and mother slept, but the little son was not asleep.

Who acts: father, little son · What happens: sleep, not be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, little son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asleep	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 asleep	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 son	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asleep	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asleep	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 asleep	advmod
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slept	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the father and mother						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	the little son					asleep 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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