The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 3
'Well, I dare say a little sleep will do you good, if you can manage to get it, and that you will wake up better to-morrow.'
Who acts: I, little sleep, you · What happens: say, do, manage, get, wake up · To what, where: good, you, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little sleep, you), 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 | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 say | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 5 | dare | dare | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sleep | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sleep | amod |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | iobj |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 manage | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 manage | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 manage | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 manage | aux |
| 18 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 manage | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wake | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wake | cc |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 wake | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 wake | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 wake | aux |
| 27 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 wake | compound:prt |
| 29 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 wake | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 morrow | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 to | punct |
| 32 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 better | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | dare | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | future | a little sleep | good | you | tree rules | |||
| 3 | manage a condition, not said to happen | can | you | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | sleep | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | wake up | future | you | good property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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