The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 53

Hans was to give up the ringing, and was to work like the rest from sunrise to sunset, with the exception of an hour after breakfast and an hour after dinner, when he might go to sleep.

Who acts: Hans, agreement · What happens: give up, be, go, except · To what, where: ringing, sleep, hour

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 (Hans, agreement), 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ringing	det
7	ringing	ringing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 work	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 work	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 work	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 work	mark
12	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 rest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rest	det
15	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 sunrise	case
17	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rest	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 sunset	case
19	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rest	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 exception	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 exception	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 exception	det
23	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 hour	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hour	det
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exception	nmod
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 breakfast	case
28	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exception	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hour	cc
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hour	det
31	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 breakfast	conj
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 dinner	case
33	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exception	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 go	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 go	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 go	aux
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 sleep	case
40	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	Hans	the ringing				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringing=Source
2	is	past	Hans not said here				like the rest from sunrise to sunset; work property	tree rules
3	go	might	agreement		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
4	except			a hour		after breakfast and a hour; after dinner		nom exception «cognition transitive»: of=patient after=obl after=obl

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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