The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 41

He was too tired to keep awake all night, yet his anxiety prevented him from sleeping soundly, and when with the earliest dawn he looked up to the tree-top, he was glad to see his feathered companions still asleep with their heads under their wings.

Who acts: wisdom, anxiety · What happens: be, keep, prevent, sleep, look up, see · To what, where: wisdom, feathered companions

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wisdom, anxiety), 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 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tired	xcomp
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prevented	punct
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	14 prevented	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 anxiety	nmod:poss
13	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prevented	nsubj
14	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 prevented	obj
16	from	from	SCONJ	_	17 sleeping	mark
17	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 prevented	advcl
18	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	17 sleeping	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looked	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 looked	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 dawn	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dawn	det
24	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 dawn	amod
25	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looked	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 looked	nsubj
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 prevented	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 looked	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	33 top	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 top	det
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 top	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 tree	punct
33	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looked	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 glad	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 glad	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 glad	cop
37	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tired	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 see	mark
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 glad	xcomp
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 companions	nmod:poss
41	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 companions	amod
42	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 see	obj
43	still	still	ADV	_	44 asleep	advmod
44	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 see	ccomp
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 heads	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 heads	nmod:poss
47	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 asleep	obl
48	under	under	ADP	_	50 wings	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 wings	nmod:poss
50	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 heads	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wisdom			tired property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive	wisdom not said here		night	awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	prevent	past	wisdom's anxiety	wisdom			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
4	sleep	gerund	wisdom's anxiety not said here			soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look up	past	wisdom		dawn	to the tree top	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to top=Theme
6	is	past	wisdom			glad property	tree rules
7	see	to-infinitive	wisdom not said here	wisdom's feathered companions			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer companion=Stimulus

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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