More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 70

The little boy lay awake a long time, listening, in case the fairy-mother should come back after all; and next evening after supper, his mother was surprised to find that he was willing to go to bed whenever she liked.

Who acts: little boy, fairy mother, mother, boy · What happens: lie, listen, come back, be, find, go · To what, where: case, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little boy, fairy mother, mother, boy), 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 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 listening	punct
10	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lay	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 case	case
13	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mother	det
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mother	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 fairy	punct
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 listening	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 come	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 evening	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 evening	cc
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 evening	amod
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl:unmarked
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 supper	case
28	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 evening	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 surprised	punct
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 surprised	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 surprised	cop
33	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 evening	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 find	mark
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 surprised	advcl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 willing	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 willing	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 willing	cop
39	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 find	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 go	mark
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 willing	xcomp
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 bed	case
43	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 go	obl
44	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 go	advmod
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 liked	nsubj
46	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 whenever	advcl:relcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the little boy		evening; time	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	gerund	the little boy not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	come back	should	the fairy mother	case	after all		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in case=Location
4	is	past	boy's mother			surprised property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	boy's mother not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	boy			willing property	tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	boy not said here	bed		whenever property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
8	like	past	mother				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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