The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 38

‘We cannot sleep, we wake and weep, Sharp is the knife, to take our life; The fire is hot, now boils the pot, And so we wake, and lie and quake.’

Who acts: We, Sharp, fire · What happens: not sleep, wake, weep, be, take, boil · To what, where: knife, life, pot

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Sharp, fire), 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 sleep	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sleep	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sleep	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sleep	advmod
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wake	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wake	nsubj
8	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sleep	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 weep	cc
10	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wake	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knife	punct
12	Sharp	Sharp	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 knife	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 knife	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knife	det
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wake	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wake	conj
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 hot	punct
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fire	det
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hot	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hot	cop
25	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleep	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 boils	punct
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 boils	advmod
28	boils	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hot	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pot	det
30	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 boils	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wake	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	35 wake	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 wake	advmod
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 wake	nsubj
35	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 boils	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lie	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lie	cc
38	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sleep	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 quake	cc
40	quake	quake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 lie	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sleep	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	can	We				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake	present	we				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	weep	present	we not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	Sharp	the knife			tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	we not said here	our life			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	is	present	the fire			hot property	tree rules
7	boil	present		the pot	now		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
8	wake	present	we				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	lie	infinitive	We not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	quake	infinitive	We not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «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 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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