The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 9
Finally, when I was perfectly exhausted by all this toil, I was free to go to bed myself, but as I had never before undressed myself, and really did not know how to begin, I lay down as I was.
Who acts: toil, I · What happens: exhaust, be, go, undress, not know, begin · To what, where: I, myself, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toil, 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 7 exhausted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 exhausted | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 exhausted | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 6 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 7 exhausted | advmod |
| 7 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 toil | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 toil | det:predet |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 toil | det |
| 11 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exhausted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 free | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 free | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 free | cop |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 exhausted | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 free | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 go | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 undressed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 undressed | cc |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 undressed | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 undressed | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 undressed | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 before | advmod |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 undressed | advmod |
| 28 | undressed | undress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 free | parataxis |
| 29 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 undressed | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 know | cc |
| 32 | really | really | ADV | _ | 35 know | advmod |
| 33 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 know | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 know | advmod |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 free | parataxis |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 begin | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 begin | mark |
| 38 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 know | ccomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 lay | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 lay | nsubj |
| 41 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 know | conj |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 41 lay | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 was | mark |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 was | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 lay | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exhausted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | past · passive | all toil | I | finally, perfectly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | undress | past · perfect | I | myself | before property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | |||
| 5 | not know | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | begin | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | lay down | present | I | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | be | past | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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