The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 110

But neither Matte nor Maie could sleep a wink; the one thought of how he had profaned Sunday, and the other of Ahti’s cow.

Who acts: Matte, fish · What happens: sleep, profane · To what, where: wink

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matte, fish), 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	_	7 sleep	cc
2	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	3 Matte	det
3	Matte	Matte	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	nsubj
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	5 Maie	cc
5	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Matte	conj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sleep	aux
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wink	det
9	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thought	det
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 thought	nummod
13	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	conj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 profaned	mark
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 profaned	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 profaned	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 profaned	aux
18	profaned	profane	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thought	acl:relcl
19	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 profaned	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 other	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 other	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thought	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 cow	case
25	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 cow	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Ahti	case
27	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 other	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	could	neither Matte nor Maie	a wink					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Theme
2	profane	past · perfect	fish				sunday		tree rules

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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