The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 149

After such a night you cannot want any breakfast; so while I do my household tasks you had better stay in bed, since the more one sleeps the less one need eat; and as it is market-day I will go to town and buy a pennyworth of bread for the week’s eating.’

Who acts: you, I, more one, less one need, need, my · What happens: not want, do, have, sleep, eat, be · To what, where: breakfast, household tasks, better stay, bed, less one need, town

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, more one, less one need), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	4 night	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 want	advmod
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 breakfast	det
10	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 had	advcl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tasks	nmod:poss
17	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tasks	compound
18	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 do	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 want	parataxis
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 stay	amod
22	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 bed	case
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stay	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sleeps	punct
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	30 sleeps	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sleeps	nsubj
30	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 had	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 need	det
32	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 need	amod
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 need	compound
34	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sleeps	obj
35	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 need	acl:relcl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 go	cc
38	as	as	ADP	_	43 day	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 day	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 day	cop
41	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 day	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 market	punct
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 go	obl
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 go	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 go	aux
46	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	parataxis
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 town	case
48	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 go	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 buy	cc
50	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 go	conj
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 pennyworth	det
52	pennyworth	pennyworth	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 buy	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 bread	case
54	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 pennyworth	nmod
55	for	for	ADP	_	59 eating	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 week	det
57	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 eating	nmod:poss
58	’s	's	PART	_	57 week	case
59	eating	eating	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 buy	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
61	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	can	you	any breakfast		night		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breakfast=Theme
2	do	present	I	my household tasks				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
3	have	past	you	better stay	bed			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stay=Patient
4	sleep	present	the more one	the less one need				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Theme
5	eat	present	the less one need not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	need			as market day		tree rules
7	go	future	I		town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
8	buy	infinitive	I not said here	a pennyworth of bread			for the week's eating	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pennyworth=Theme for eating=Beneficiary
9	task		my					nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent
10	eat		the week					nom eating «act intransitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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