The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 166

‘Ah! what a time I’ve been sleeping!’

Who acts: I · What happens: sleep

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	4 what	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleeping	obl:unmarked
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sleeping	nsubj
8	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sleeping	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 sleeping	aux
10	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 what	acl:relcl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 sleeping	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · perfect · progressive	I				time		vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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