The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 35
For one whole year he is always awake, and the next he sleeps.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 year | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 year | amod |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awake | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 awake | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 awake | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 awake | advmod |
| 8 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 next | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 next | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 next | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 awake | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sleeps | nsubj |
| 14 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 next | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 awake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | man | year | always, awake property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | man not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sleep | present | man | 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 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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