The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 163

When they had finished Aina yawned, stretched out her arms and said: ‘Oh, if only we had a nice soft bed to sleep on now!’

Who acts: milk, Aina, we · What happens: finish, yawn, stretch out, say, have, sleep · To what, where: arms, nice soft bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (milk, Aina, we), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 yawned	advcl
5	Aina	Aina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 yawned	nsubj
6	yawned	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stretched	punct
8	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 yawned	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 stretched	compound:prt
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arms	nmod:poss
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stretched	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stretched	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
16	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	21 had	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Oh	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yawned	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bed	det
23	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bed	amod
24	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bed	amod
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sleep	mark
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 now	case
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 sleep	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 yawned	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 yawned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	milk		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	yawn	past	Aina		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stretch out	participle		Aina's arms	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	have a condition, not said to happen	past	we	a nice soft bed	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
6	sleep	to-infinitive	we not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 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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