The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 15

Ferko was at a loss to understand how he could have eaten in his sleep, but he said nothing, and fasted all that day and the next night.

Who acts: Ferko · What happens: be, understand, eat, say, fast, sleep · To what, where: loss, sleep, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Ferko), 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	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 loss	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loss	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 loss	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 loss	det
5	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 understand	mark
7	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 loss	acl
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 eaten	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eaten	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 eaten	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 eaten	aux
12	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 understand	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 sleep	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sleep	nmod:poss
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eaten	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loss	parataxis
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 said	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fasted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fasted	cc
23	fasted	fast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 day	det:predet
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fasted	obl:unmarked
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 night	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 night	amod
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	Ferko		a loss		tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	eat	could · perfect	Ferko		Ferko's sleep		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Ferko	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	fast	past	Ferko not said here			day	tree rules
6	sleep		Ferko				nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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