Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 174
It is comfortable to sleep late in the morning when one had a great deal to do," said the sluggard; "so I shall stop here as long as the wind blows, for it pleases me."
Who acts: rest, one, sluggard, I, wind · What happens: be, sleep, have, do, say, stop · To what, where: great deal, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, one, sluggard, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comfortable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comfortable | cop |
| 3 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sleep | mark |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comfortable | advcl |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sleep | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 late | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 had | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 morning | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 deal | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 comfortable | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comfortable | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 comfortable | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sluggard | det |
| 22 | sluggard | sluggard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 stop | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 stop | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 stop | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 stop | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 stop | aux |
| 28 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comfortable | parataxis |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 stop | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 long | advmod |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 stop | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 blows | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wind | det |
| 34 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 blows | nsubj |
| 35 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 long | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 pleases | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 pleases | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 pleases | nsubj |
| 39 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 stop | parataxis |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 pleases | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comfortable | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comfortable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | rest | comfortable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | rest not said here | late property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | one | a great deal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | one not said here | a great deal not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the sluggard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | stop | shall | I | here | long property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | blow | present | the wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | please | present | rest | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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