English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 16
He said that night was on him, and he wanted to get some place to sleep.
Who acts: lad, night · What happens: say, be, want, get, sleep · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, night), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 him | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 him | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wanted | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sleep | mark |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 place | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | lad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | that night | on Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | past | lad | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | lad not said here | some place | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | lad not said here | some place not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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