The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 63
“Let me sleep for this night at the foot of your bed.”
Who acts: you, cat · What happens: let, sleep · To what, where: cat, foot
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 (you, cat), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleep | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 foot | det |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleep | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bed | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foot | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the cat = cat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | infinitive | the cat = cat not said here | the foot of your bed | night | 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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