The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 116
I got into bed, and couldn’t sleep for a long time; and when I examined my five guineas this morning, that I left in the table drawer the last thing, I found five withered leaves of oak--bad luck to the giver!’
Who acts: I, morning, five · What happens: get, not sleep, examine, leave, find, wither · To what, where: bed, five guineas, last thing, table drawer, leaves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, morning, five), 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 | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 bed | case |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sleep | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sleep | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sleep | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sleep | advmod |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 got | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleep | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 examined | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 examined | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 examined | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 examined | nsubj |
| 18 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 guineas | nmod:poss |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 guineas | nummod |
| 21 | guineas | guinea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 examined | obj |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 morning | det |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 examined | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 left | punct |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 left | nsubj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 morning | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 drawer | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 drawer | det |
| 30 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drawer | compound |
| 31 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 thing | det |
| 33 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 thing | amod |
| 34 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 found | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 found | nsubj |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 38 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 withered | nsubj |
| 39 | withered | wither | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 found | ccomp |
| 40 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 withered | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 oak | case |
| 42 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 leaves | nmod |
| 43 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 luck | punct |
| 44 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 luck | amod |
| 45 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 oak | appos |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 giver | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 giver | det |
| 48 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 luck | nmod |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | bed | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not sleep | could | I not said here | time | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | examine | past | I | my five guineas | morning | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guinea=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | past | this morning | the last thing | the table drawer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in drawer=Location | |||
| 5 | find | past | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wither | past | five | leaves of oak | 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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