The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 25

If Gudu had only known, Isuro was asleep all the time; but this he never guessed, and by-and- bye he grew so tired with watching that he went to sleep himself.

Who acts: Isuro, this, Gudu · What happens: know, be, not guess, grow, watch, go · To what, where: Gudu

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isuro, this, Gudu), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 known	mark
2	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 known	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 known	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 known	advmod
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asleep	punct
7	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 known	xcomp
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	obl:unmarked
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 guessed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 guessed	cc
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 guessed	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 guessed	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 guessed	advmod
18	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 known	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grew	cc
21	by	by	ADP	_	25 bye	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 by	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bye	cc
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grew	nsubj
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 guessed	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 tired	advmod
29	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grew	xcomp
30	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 watching	mark
31	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 tired	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 went	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tired	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sleep	mark
36	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 went	xcomp
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 sleep	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · perfect · passive		Gudu			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	is	past	Isuro		time	asleep property	tree rules
3	not guess	past	this				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	Gudu			by bye; tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bye=Location
5	watch	gerund	Gudu not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	go	past	Gudu				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	sleep	to-infinitive	Gudu not said here	Gudu			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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