The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 72

'And I am much too sleepy at dawn after a long night's hunting to begin to sweep and dust,' answered the owl.

Who acts: I, sleepy, long night · What happens: be, begin, sweep, answer, hunt · To what, where: owl

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, sleepy, long night), 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	_	7 sleepy	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 sleepy	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sleepy	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sleepy	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	7 sleepy	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 sleepy	advmod
7	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 answered	nsubj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleepy	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	15 hunting	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 night	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunting	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 night	case
15	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dawn	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 begin	mark
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hunting	acl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sweep	mark
19	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begin	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dust	cc
21	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sweep	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sleepy	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 sleepy	punct
24	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 owl	det
26	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 answered	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		dawn	sleepy property	tree rules
2	begin	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sweep	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past	sleepy	the owl			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent owl=Eventuality
5	hunt		a long night				nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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