Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 16

"All night long I could not sleep; and the next evening when I gave another performance and the lecturer was present, I was in one of my best moods.

Who acts: man, lecturer · What happens: not sleep, give, be · To what, where: performance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, lecturer), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sleep	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 sleep	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sleep	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sleep	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sleep	advmod
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 evening	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 evening	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 evening	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 evening	amod
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleep	obl:unmarked
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 gave	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 evening	acl:relcl
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 performance	det
18	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 present	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lecturer	det
21	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 present	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 present	cop
23	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 performance	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 one	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 one	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sleep	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 moods	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 moods	nmod:poss
31	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 moods	amod
32	moods	mood	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 one	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep in a quote	could	man		evening	long property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give in a quote	past	man	another performance			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent performance=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	the lecturer			present property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	man			in one; of my best moods	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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