Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 26
He went home, and as tired as he was he did not sleep a wink until the sun rose on the morrow.
Who acts: plant, sun · What happens: go, not be, rise · To what, where: morrow
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, 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 (plant, sun), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tired | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tired | cc |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 tired | advmod |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sleep | cop |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sleep | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sleep | advmod |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tired | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wink | det |
| 16 | wink | wink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sleep | obj |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 rose | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sun | det |
| 19 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rose | nsubj |
| 20 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sleep | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 morrow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 morrow | det |
| 23 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rose | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | plant | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past · do-support | plant | sleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the sun | the morrow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on morrow=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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