The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 18
I was extremely tired, and with the heat of the weather I found myself much inclined to sleep.
Who acts: I, myself, weather · What happens: be, find, incline, sleep, heat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, myself, weather), 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 | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 3 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 4 tired | advmod |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heat | det |
| 9 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 weather | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weather | det |
| 12 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heat | nmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | parataxis |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 inclined | nsubj |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 inclined | advmod |
| 17 | inclined | incline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sleep | mark |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 inclined | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | extremely, tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | I | with the heat of the weather | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | incline | past | myself | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | myself not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | heat | the weather | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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