The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 81

‘The students have quite turned your head, for you sang silly songs last evening while we were rowing, and then you could not sleep till early morning.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: turn, sing, row, not sleep · To what, where: students, silly songs

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 (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 students	det
3	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turned	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sang	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 sang	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sang	nsubj
12	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
13	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 songs	amod
14	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sang	obj
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 evening	amod
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sang	obl:unmarked
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 rowing	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 rowing	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rowing	aux
20	rowing	row	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sang	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sleep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sleep	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 sleep	advmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 sleep	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sleep	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 sleep	advmod
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turned	conj
28	till	till	ADP	_	30 morning	case
29	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 morning	amod
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sleep	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	turn	present · perfect · passive		the students		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme head=Result
2	sing speech: express	past	you	silly songs	evening	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	row	past · progressive	we			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	not sleep	could	you		then; morning	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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