The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 92
But there was no sleep for her that night, for she lay in the dark thinking about her son.
Who acts: sleep · What happens: be, think · To what, where: dark
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lay | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 sleep | det |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | obl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 lay | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 dark | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dark | det |
| 16 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 17 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lay | advcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 son | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thinking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sleep | the dark | lie property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | sleep not said here | about sleep's son | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about son=Topic |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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