The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 14
He went to bed again, but did not sleep a wink all the rest of the night, thinking on what he had to do.
Who acts: thumb · What happens: go, not sleep, think, have, do · To what, where: bed, wink
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thumb), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 bed | case |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sleep | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sleep | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 sleep | advmod |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wink | det |
| 12 | wink | wink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sleep | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 rest | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rest | det |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sleep | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rest | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thinking | punct |
| 20 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sleep | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 thinking | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 had | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | thumb | bed | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not sleep | past · do-support | thumb not said here | a wink | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | thumb not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | past | thumb | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | thumb not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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