Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 124
Sleep sweetly, if thou canst sleep!
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: sleep
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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 | Sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 1 Sleep | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sleep | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 sleep | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 sleep | nsubj |
| 6 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 7 sleep | aux |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Sleep | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | imperative | you not said here | sweetly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep a condition, not said to happen | can | thou | 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: «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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