The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 106
And as he sat thus his eyes refused to keep open any longer, and a desire to sleep stole over him.
Who acts: other, eyes · What happens: sit, refuse, not keep, sleep · To what, where: stole
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, eyes), 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 sat | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 refused | nsubj |
| 8 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 refused | xcomp |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | any | any | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 keep | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 desire | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 desire | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 desire | det |
| 17 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sleep | mark |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 desire | acl |
| 20 | stole | stole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleep | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sleep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | other | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | other's eyes | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not keep | to-infinitive | other's eyes not said here | long, open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | other not said here | stole | over other | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stole=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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