The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 50

During the night he could not sleep, until towards morning he fell into a slumber, and all at once it flashed upon him what the troll used to say.

Who acts: troll, slumber · What happens: not sleep, fall, flash, use, say · To what, where: all, slumber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, slumber), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sleep	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sleep	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sleep	advmod
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 fell	mark
10	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 morning	case
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sleep	advcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 slumber	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 slumber	det
16	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 all	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 all	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 fell	obl
20	at	at	SCONJ	_	23 flashed	mark
21	once	once	SCONJ	_	23 flashed	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flashed	nsubj
23	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	advcl
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flashed	obl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 flashed	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 troll	det
28	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 used	nsubj
29	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 say	mark
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 used	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	could	troll		night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	troll	all	morning	into a slumber result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into slumber=Result
3	flash	past	slumber			upon troll	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	use	past	the troll				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the troll not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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