The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 24

By our skill in magic we have cast sleep on every living thing in the castle, except a little black dog, and, as long as he is awake, we are no better off than before; for, as soon as we begin to climb over the wall, the little dog will hear us, and its barking will waken all the others again.

Who acts: we, castle, little dog, barking · What happens: cast, be, not be, begin, climb, hear · To what, where: sleep, living thing, wall, us, others

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, castle, little dog, barking), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 skill	case
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 skill	nmod:poss
3	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 magic	case
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skill	nmod
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 cast	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cast	aux
8	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 thing	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 thing	det
12	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	compound
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dog	punct
18	except	except	ADP	_	22 dog	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dog	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dog	amod
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dog	amod
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 castle	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 long	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 cast	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 awake	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 awake	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 awake	cop
31	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 long	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 better	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 better	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 better	cop
35	no	no	ADV	_	36 better	advmod
36	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 long	conj
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 better	compound:prt
38	than	than	ADP	_	39 before	case
39	before	before	ADV	_	36 better	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 begin	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	47 begin	case
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 begin	punct
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 soon	advmod
44	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 begin	advmod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 begin	mark
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 begin	nsubj
47	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cast	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 climb	mark
49	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 begin	xcomp
50	over	over	ADP	_	52 wall	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 wall	det
52	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 climb	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 hear	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 dog	det
55	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 dog	amod
56	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 hear	nsubj
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 hear	aux
58	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 climb	conj
59	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 hear	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 waken	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 waken	cc
62	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 barking	nmod:poss
63	barking	barking	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 waken	nsubj
64	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 waken	aux
65	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 climb	conj
66	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	68 others	det:predet
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 others	det
68	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 waken	obj
69	again	again	ADV	_	65 waken	advmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	present · perfect	we	sleep	every living thing in the castle and a little black dog		by our skill in magic; long property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme by skill=Destination
2	is	present	castle				awake property	tree rules
3	not is	present	we				good property	tree rules
4	begin	present	we				soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	climb	to-infinitive	we not said here		the wall			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory
6	hear	future	the little dog	us				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
7	waken	future	dog's barking	all others		again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent other=Patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/30/24/