The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 83
I was having such a nice nap.’
Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: nice nap
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 having | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 having | aux |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 nap | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nap | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nap | amod |
| 7 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 having | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · progressive | I | such nice nap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient |
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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