The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 5

‘I am weary,’ said Arthur, ‘and till my food is prepared I would fain sleep.

Who acts: I, Arthur · What happens: be, say, prepare, fain · To what, where: food, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Arthur), 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	_	4 weary	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 weary	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 weary	cop
4	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 weary	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 weary	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 prepared	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 prepared	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 prepared	cc
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 prepared	mark
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 food	nmod:poss
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prepared	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 prepared	aux:pass
16	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 fain	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fain	aux
19	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 prepared	xcomp
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fain	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		weary property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Arthur			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	prepare	present · passive		my food		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	fain not said to happen	would	I	sleep		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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