The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 64
‘I spent the night in the greatest agitation, and only fell into a doze towards morning.
Who acts: I · What happens: spend, fall · To what, where: greatest agitation, doze
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 agitation | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 agitation | det |
| 8 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 agitation | amod |
| 9 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 doze | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 doze | det |
| 16 | doze | doze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 morning | case |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | I | the greatest agitation | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fall | past | I not said here | morning | into a doze result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into doze=Result |
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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