The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 24
The maiden could not rest for thinking of this.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: not rest, think
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rest | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 rest | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 rest | advmod |
| 5 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 thinking | mark |
| 7 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rest | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thinking | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rest | could | the maiden | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | the maiden not said here | of this | vn focus-87.1-1 «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 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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