Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 129
But now don't talk any more, for I want to go to sleep;" and then they all slept.
Who acts: I, twigs · What happens: not talk, want, go, sleep · To what, where: sleep
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, twigs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 talk | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 talk | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talk | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 talk | advmod |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 talk | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 want | case |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 talk | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | case |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slept | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 slept | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 slept | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 they | det |
| 22 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 talk | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk | present · do-support | now | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | past | twigs = twig | then | 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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