The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 68
But he did not sleep, and in the morning could not manage to rise.
Who acts: Count · What happens: not sleep, not manage, not rise
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count), 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 | _ | 5 sleep | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sleep | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sleep | advmod |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 manage | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 manage | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 manage | obl |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 manage | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 manage | advmod |
| 13 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sleep | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rise | mark |
| 15 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 manage | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | past · do-support | Count | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not manage | could | Count not said here | morning | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not rise | to-infinitive | Count not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 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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