The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 1

At last one morning, after the girl had been lying awake all night thinking of her husband, she said to her friend the snake:

Who acts: girl, night · What happens: lie, think, say · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, night), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 girl	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lying	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 lying	aux
11	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 said	advcl
12	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lying	xcomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lying	obl:unmarked
15	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 night	acl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 husband	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husband	nmod:poss
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thinking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lying	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 friend	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 friend	nmod:poss
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 snake	det
26	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · perfect · progressive	girl not said here		after the girl; morning; night	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	gerund	all night not said here			of girl's husband	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	girl	girl's friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient

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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