The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 71

'I really am too tired when I come home in the evening to clean up the house,' said the eagle.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, come, clean up, say · To what, where: house, eagle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	ccomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 come	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	parataxis
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 evening	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 clean	mark
15	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 clean	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clean	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 eagle	det
23	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			tired property	tree rules
2	come	present	I		evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	clean up	to-infinitive	I not said here	the house			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past		the eagle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eagle=Topic

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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