The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 41

‘Well, little kitchen-maid, it is a good thing that the King always takes a sleeping draught, for if not he would be kept awake all night by your sighing and lamenting.’

Who acts: maid, King, sighing · What happens: be, take, not keep, lament · To what, where: good thing, sleeping draught, King

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, King, sighing), 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	_	7 maid	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 maid	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maid	amod
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maid	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 kitchen	punct
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thing	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maid	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 takes	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 takes	nsubj
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 takes	advmod
18	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 draught	det
20	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 draught	compound
21	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 takes	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kept	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 kept	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 kept	mark
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 kept	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kept	nsubj:pass
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 kept	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 kept	aux:pass
29	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 takes	advcl
30	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 kept	xcomp
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 night	det
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	obl:unmarked
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 sighing	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 sighing	nmod:poss
35	sighing	sighing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lamenting	cc
37	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 sighing	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 maid	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 maid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	maid	a good thing			tree rules
2	take	present	the King	a sleeping draught		always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme
3	not keep a condition, not said to happen	would · passive	your sighing	King	night	awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	lament	gerund	your sighing not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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