More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 15

The third night the lad got into bed, and he heard the bogles striving under the bed, and they had the ball there, and they were casting it to and fro.

Who acts: lad, bogles · What happens: get, hear, strive, have, cast, fro · To what, where: bed, bogles, ball

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, bogles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bogles	det
14	bogles	bogle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heard	obj
15	striving	strive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 bogles	acl
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 bed	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bed	det
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 striving	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ball	det
24	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 had	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 casting	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 casting	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 casting	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 casting	aux
30	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 got	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 casting	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 fro	case
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fro	cc
34	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 casting	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	get	past	the lad		bed	night	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination
2	hear	past	lad	the bogles			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bogle=Stimulus
3	strive	gerund	the bogles not said here		the bed		tree rules
4	have	past	bogles = bogle	the ball	there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
5	cast	past · progressive	bogles = bogle	ball			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
6	fro	infinitive	bogles = bogle not said here				tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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