The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 129
‘Ah, sir,’ replied Hans calmly, ‘in order to have gained so much money you must have lain awake all night, but I have earned a hundred times that amount while I was sleeping soundly.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: reply, gain, lie, earn, sleep · To what, where: Hans, much money
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ah | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 replied | obj |
| 9 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 8 Hans | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gained | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 16 gained | cc |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 gained | mark |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 in | fixed |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 gained | mark |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 gained | aux |
| 16 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 money | amod |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gained | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 lain | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 lain | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 lain | aux |
| 23 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 money | acl:relcl |
| 24 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lain | xcomp |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lain | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 earned | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 earned | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 earned | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 earned | aux |
| 31 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 hundred | det |
| 33 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 times | nummod |
| 34 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 earned | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 amount | det |
| 36 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 40 sleeping | mark |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 sleeping | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 sleeping | aux |
| 40 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 earned | advcl |
| 41 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 40 sleeping | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent han=Topic | |||||
| 2 | gain | to-infinitive · perfect | much money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | must · perfect | you | much money not said here | night | awake property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme | ||
| 4 | earn | present · perfect | I | time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sleep | past · progressive | I | soundly property | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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