The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 85
You could not possibly sleep with such ghastly neighbours.’
Who acts: You · What happens: not sleep
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sleep | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sleep | advmod |
| 4 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 5 sleep | advmod |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 neighbours | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 neighbours | amod |
| 8 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 neighbours | amod |
| 9 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sleep | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleep | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | could | You | with such ghastly neighbours; possibly 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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