The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 105
He got into bed, but it was long before he fell asleep, and even then his dreams gave him no rest.
Who acts: door, dreams · What happens: get, fall, give, dream · To what, where: bed, rest, door
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, dreams), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 bed | case |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 before | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 before | cop |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 before | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 13 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 then | advmod |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 gave | advmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | door | bed | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | door | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | door's dreams | no rest | door | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rest=Theme | ||
| 4 | dream | door | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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