The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 62
But while all this was done I still lay in a deep sleep, and I did not wake till four hours after we began our journey.
Who acts: I, we, our · What happens: do, lay, not wake, begin, journey · To what, where: this, deep sleep, journey
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, we, our), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 done | mark |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 done | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lay | advcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 lay | advmod |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sleep | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sleep | amod |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wake | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wake | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wake | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wake | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wake | advmod |
| 19 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lay | conj |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 hours | case |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 hours | nummod |
| 22 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wake | obl |
| 23 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 25 began | mark |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 began | nsubj |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wake | advcl |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 journey | nmod:poss |
| 27 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 began | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lay | present | I | a deep sleep | still | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sleep=Destination | |||
| 3 | not wake | past · do-support | I | hour | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | we | our journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | journey | our | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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