The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 32
Then Cassim grew so envious that he could not sleep, and went to his brother in the morning before sunrise.
Who acts: Cassim · What happens: grow, not sleep, go
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cassim), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | Cassim | Cassim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 envious | advmod |
| 5 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 sleep | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sleep | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sleep | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 sleep | advmod |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 envious | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 brother | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 morning | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 morning | det |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 sunrise | case |
| 21 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Cassim | then | envious property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not sleep | could | Cassim | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Cassim not said here | morning; sunrise | to Cassim's brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location |
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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