The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 77

He was very sorry when he heard this, and could not understand why the sleep should have fallen upon him just when she was coming.

Who acts: lad, sleep · What happens: be, hear, not understand, fall, come · To what, where: this · 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 (lad, sleep), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sorry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 sorry	advmod
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	advcl
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 understand	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 understand	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 understand	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 understand	advmod
13	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	parataxis
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 fallen	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sleep	det
16	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fallen	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fallen	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 fallen	aux
19	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 understand	ccomp
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fallen	obl
22	just	just	ADV	_	26 coming	advmod
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 coming	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 coming	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 coming	aux
26	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 fallen	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	lad		sorry property	tree rules
2	hear	past	lad	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	not understand	could				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	fall	should · perfect	the sleep		upon lad	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
5	come	past · progressive	sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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