The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 72

‘It is bad for him,’ said she, ‘when the night is not long enough for him to sleep.

Who acts: master, Princess, night, lad · What happens: be, say, not be, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, Princess, night, lad), 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 bad	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bad	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 long	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 long	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 long	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	conj
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 sleep	mark
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sleep	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sleep	mark
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 long	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	master	for lad; bad property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	the night	enough, long property	tree rules
4	sleep	to-infinitive	lad		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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