The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 100
It is impossible to sleep if somebody is always coming in.'
Who acts: somebody · What happens: be, sleep, come in
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (somebody), 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 impossible | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 impossible | cop |
| 3 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sleep | mark |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 impossible | csubj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 coming | mark |
| 7 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 coming | aux |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 coming | advmod |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sleep | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 coming | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 impossible | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come in a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | somebody | always property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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