The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 119
I’m tired, VERY tired, and want to sleep--scratch my head.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, want, sleep, scratch · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ’m | nsubj |
| 2 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ’m | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tired | punct |
| 5 | VERY | very | ADV | _ | 6 tired | advmod |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tired | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 want | cc |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ’m | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 scratch | punct |
| 13 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sleep | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scratch | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’m | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | tired property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | present | I not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scratch | infinitive | I not said here | my head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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