The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 17
“I really think that, bad sleeper as I am, I might have a good night on it.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, have · To what, where: sleeper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 am | mark |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleeper | punct |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sleeper | amod |
| 8 | sleeper | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 am | nsubj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 I | case |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sleeper | nmod |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 am | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 night | amod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | might | I | sleeper | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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