--- title: I’m tired, VERY tired, and want to sleep--scratch my head.’ — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I’m tired, VERY tired, and want to sleep--scratch my head.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/119/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/) / 119 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 119 I’m tired, VERY tired, and want to sleep--scratch my head.’ **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, want, sleep, scratch · **To what, where:** head This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg641:4:119 # text = I’m tired, VERY tired, and want to sleep--scratch my head.’ 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 VERY very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | I | | | | | tired *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **want** | present | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **scratch** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my head | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | 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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/120/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/)