The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 111

The cat had the ball hung round his neck day and night, and he was such a light sleeper that it was useless to think of taking it while he slept.

Who acts: cat, ball, brother, it · What happens: have, hang, be, think, take, sleep · To what, where: light sleeper, ball

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, ball, brother, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	nsubj
6	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
7	round	round	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 day	nmod:poss
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	compound
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 night	cc
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sleeper	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sleeper	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sleeper	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sleeper	cop
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 sleeper	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sleeper	det
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sleeper	compound
20	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 useless	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 useless	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 useless	cop
24	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sleeper	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 think	mark
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 useless	csubj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 taking	mark
28	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 think	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 taking	obj
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 slept	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 slept	nsubj
32	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 taking	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the cat				tree rules
2	hang	past	the ball		day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	brother	such light sleeper			tree rules
4	is	past	it	such light sleeper not said here		useless property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	gerund		ball			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	sleep	past	brother				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 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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