The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 69

‘I must be more tired than I thought,’ he said to himself, and, after telling them to be sure to wake him next morning at eight o’clock, he went to bed.

Who acts: I, John · What happens: be, think, say, tell, wake, go · To what, where: John, hinges, eight o’clock, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, John), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 tired	cop
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 went	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 telling	mark
20	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 went	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 telling	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 sure	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 sure	cop
24	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 telling	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 wake	mark
26	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sure	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wake	obj
28	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 morning	amod
29	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wake	obl:unmarked
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 o’clock	case
31	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 o’clock	nummod
32	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wake	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 telling	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 bed	case
37	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 went	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	I					tired property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	John		John				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	John not said here		hinges = hinge				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						sure property	tree rules
6	wake	to-infinitive		John		eight o’clock	morning		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	go	past	John			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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