The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 3

And one hour before midnight, when witches are invisible, she glided into the room where all three lads were sleeping in the same bed.

Who acts: one hour, witch, three lads · What happens: be, glide, sleep · To what, where: room, same bed

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one hour, witch, three lads), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 invisible	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hour	nummod
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 invisible	nsubj
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hour	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 invisible	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 invisible	mark
8	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 invisible	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 invisible	cop
10	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glided	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 glided	nsubj
13	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 invisible	parataxis
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glided	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 sleeping	advmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 lads	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 lads	nummod
20	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sleeping	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sleeping	aux
22	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 room	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 bed	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bed	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bed	amod
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sleeping	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 invisible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	one hour before midnight		invisible property	tree rules
2	glide	past	witch	the room		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
3	sleep	past · progressive	all three lads	the same bed		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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.

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