--- title: It is comfortable to sleep late in the morning when one had a great… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It is comfortable to sleep late in the morning when one had a great deal to do," said the sluggard; "so I shall stop here as long as the wind blows, for it pleases me." Who acts: rest, one, sluggard, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, one, sluggard, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:143:174 # text = It is comfortable to sleep late in the morning when one had a great deal to do," said the sluggard; "so I shall stop here as long as the wind blows, for it pleases me." 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 6 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sluggard sluggard NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 29 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 pleases please VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | rest | | | | | comfortable *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | rest *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | one | a great deal | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | a great deal *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the sluggard | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stop** | shall | I | | | here | | long *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **blow** | present | the wind | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **please** | present | rest | me | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/173/) - next →: [sentence 175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/175/) - ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)