The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 115

She answered him: ‘That person did not go to sleep quickly, and he stayed at home all day, so that I was not able to adorn myself.

Who acts: Gul, person, I · What happens: answer, not go, sleep, stay, not be, adorn · To what, where: matter, home, myself

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gul, person, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
6	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 answered	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	xcomp
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 sleep	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stayed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stayed	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stayed	nsubj
17	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 home	case
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stayed	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stayed	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 able	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 able	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 able	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 able	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 able	advmod
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stayed	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 adorn	mark
30	adorn	adorn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	xcomp
31	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 adorn	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Gul		matter				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	not go	past · do-support	that person						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sleep	to-infinitive	that person not said here					quickly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stay	past	person			home	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
5	not is	past	I					able property	tree rules
6	adorn	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme myself=Destination

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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