The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 91
“If you sleep well during the might there MAY be a chance for you,” said she, shaking her head, as she tucked him up warmly; “but if not—” And of course the poor man never closed an eye till the sun rose.
Who acts: you, branch, poor man, sun · What happens: sleep, be, say, shake, tuck up, not close · To what, where: head, man, eye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, branch, poor man, sun), 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 | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 sleep | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sleep | advmod |
| 6 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 chance | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chance | det |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 be | expl |
| 10 | MAY | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 chance | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chance | det |
| 13 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleep | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sleep | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shaking | punct |
| 21 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shaking | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tucked | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 tucked | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tucked | nsubj |
| 27 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tucked | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 tucked | compound:prt |
| 30 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 27 tucked | advmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 closed | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 closed | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 closed | cc |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 not | mark |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 closed | advcl |
| 36 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 not | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 not | punct |
| 38 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 closed | cc |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 45 closed | advmod |
| 40 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 of | fixed |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 man | det |
| 42 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 man | amod |
| 43 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 closed | nsubj |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 closed | advmod |
| 45 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 eye | det |
| 47 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 closed | obj |
| 48 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 51 rose | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 sun | det |
| 50 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 rose | nsubj |
| 51 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 closed | advcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | for you; well property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | during the chance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | branch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shake | gerund | branch not said here | branch's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tuck up | past | branch | man | warmly property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 6 | not close | past | the poor man | a eye | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 7 | rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «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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