The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 174
But now sleep and get strong again; I will sing you a lullaby.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: sleep, get, sing · To what, where: lullaby, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 sleep | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sleep | advmod |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sleep | conj |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sing | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sing | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sing | aux |
| 11 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sleep | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sing | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lullaby | det |
| 14 | lullaby | lullaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sleep | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | imperative | you not said here | now | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | you not said here | again | strong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | future | I | a lullaby | you | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary lullaby=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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