The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 102

I once blew an aspen leaf there, but I was so tired that for many days afterward I was not able to blow at all.

Who acts: I, many days · What happens: blow, be, not be · To what, where: aspen leaf, all

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, many days), 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	3 blew	nsubj
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 blew	advmod
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
5	aspen	aspen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaf	amod
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 blew	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tired	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tired	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blew	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 able	mark
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 able	nsubj
18	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	17 days	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 able	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 able	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 able	advmod
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tired	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 blow	mark
24	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 blow	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	past	I	a aspen leaf	there	once property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	is	past	I			tired property	tree rules
3	not is	past	many days			able property	tree rules
4	blow	to-infinitive	many days not said here		all		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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