The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 87
Filled with hope, she went back to her duties, though she could hardly sleep all night for excitement.
Who acts: duck · What happens: fill, go back, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck), 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 | Filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 hope | case |
| 3 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Filled | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Filled | parataxis |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 duties | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 duties | nmod:poss |
| 10 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sleep | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sleep | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sleep | aux |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 16 sleep | advmod |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 excitement | case |
| 20 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleep | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | with hope | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hope=Instrument | |||||
| 2 | go back | past | duck | to duck's duties result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to duty=Result | ||||
| 3 | sleep | could | duck | night | for excitement; hardly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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