The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 69
And as he spoke Arthur awoke, and asked if he had not slept for a little.
Who acts: valley, Arthur · What happens: speak, awake, ask, not 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 (valley, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | nsubj |
| 6 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 slept | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slept | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slept | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 slept | advmod |
| 14 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 little | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slept | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | valley | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | awake | past | Arthur | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | valley not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not sleep a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Arthur | for a little | 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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