The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 50
‘If one works in the night one must sleep in the day, just as if one works in the day one sleeps in the night.
Who acts: one · What happens: work, sleep · To what, where: day
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 (one), 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 | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 works | mark |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 works | nsubj |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sleep | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | compound |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 works | obl |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sleep | aux |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sleep | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 works | punct |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 works | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 works | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 works | mark |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 works | nsubj |
| 19 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sleep | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 works | obl |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sleeps | nsubj |
| 24 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 day | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sleeps | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work a condition, not said to happen | present | one | in the night one | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | must | day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | work a condition, not said to happen | present | one | day | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | present | one | the day not said here | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=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 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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