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title: “I really must have some sleep first,” replied Paperarello, stretchi… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I really must have some sleep first,” replied Paperarello, stretching himself and yawning; and he flung himself on his bed, and was fast asleep in a moment. Who acts: Paperarello. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 24

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“I really must have some sleep first,” replied Paperarello, stretching himself and yawning; and he flung himself on his bed, and was fast asleep in a moment.

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**Who acts:** Paperarello · **What happens:** have, reply, stretch, yawn, fling, be · **To what, where:** sleep, Paperarello, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paperarello), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:13:24
# text = “I really must have some sleep first,” replied Paperarello, stretching himself and yawning; and he flung himself on his bed, and was fast asleep in a moment.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	yawning	yawn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | must | Paperarello | some sleep |  |  |  | first *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Paperarello |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stretch** | gerund | Paperarello *not said here* | Paperarello |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **yawn** | gerund | Paperarello *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fling** | past | Paperarello | Paperarello |  | Paperarello's bed |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on bed=Destination |
| 6 | **is** | past | Paperarello *not said here* |  |  |  | moment | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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