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title: 'And I am much too sleepy at dawn after a long night's hunting to be… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'And I am much too sleepy at dawn after a long night's hunting to begin to sweep and dust,' answered the owl. Who acts: I, sleepy, long night. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 72

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'And I am much too sleepy at dawn after a long night's hunting to begin to sweep and dust,' answered the owl.

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**Who acts:** I, sleepy, long night · **What happens:** be, begin, sweep, answer, hunt · **To what, where:** owl

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sleepy, long night), 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:pg3027:26:72
# text = 'And I am much too sleepy at dawn after a long night's hunting to begin to sweep and dust,' answered the owl.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
24	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  | dawn | sleepy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sweep** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | sleepy | the owl |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent owl=Eventuality |
| 5 | **hunt** |  | a long night |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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