The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 93
‘Oh, it sleeps soundly, never fear.’
Who acts: wedding · What happens: sleep, not fear
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleeps | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 sleeps | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sleeps | nsubj |
| 5 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 5 sleeps | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fear | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 fear | advmod |
| 9 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sleeps | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleeps | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | wedding | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not fear | infinitive | wedding not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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