The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 2

Of course it was not everyone who cared to get up in the middle of the night, when he had been working hard all day; still, a good many had agreed to do it.

Who acts: course, minister · What happens: not be, care, get up, work, agree, do · To what, where: middle, good, course

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 (course, minister), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 everyone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everyone	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 everyone	advmod
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cared	nsubj
8	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everyone	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cared	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 get	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 night	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 middle	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 working	punct
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 working	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 working	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 working	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 working	aux
23	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 get	advcl
24	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 working	advmod
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 working	obl:unmarked
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 everyone	punct
28	still	still	ADV	_	30 a	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 still	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 everyone	conj
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 agreed	nsubj:pass
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 agreed	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 agreed	aux
34	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 a	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 do	mark
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 agreed	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 do	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 everyone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	course				of everyone	tree rules
2	care	past						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	get up	to-infinitive			the middle of the night			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	work	past · perfect · progressive	minister			day	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	agree speech: agree	past · perfect · passive		good				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive		course				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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