The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 78
He decided, however, to go early to bed that night, in order to rise in time nest morning, and so he did.
Who acts: lad · What happens: decide, go, rise, do · To what, where: bed · 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), 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 | 2 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 decided | ccomp |
| 8 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rise | punct |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 rise | mark |
| 15 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 in | fixed |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 rise | mark |
| 17 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 morning | case |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 morning | compound |
| 20 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 morning | compound |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rise | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 did | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 did | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 did | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 decided | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | lad | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | bed | night | early, however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | rise | to-infinitive | morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | past | lad | vn act-114-1 «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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