Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 78

So the next night one of the old ladies of the court was set to watch by the princess's bed, to discover whether it really was a dream, or what else it might be.

Who acts: bed · What happens: set, watch, discover, be · To what, where: next night, dream

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed), 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	nsubj:pass
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 night	flat
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 ladies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ladies	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ladies	amod
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 court	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 court	det
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ladies	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 set	aux:pass
14	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 watch	mark
16	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 set	xcomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	21 bed	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bed	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 princess	case
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 watch	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 discover	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 discover	mark
24	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 watch	conj
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	30 dream	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dream	nsubj
27	really	really	ADV	_	30 dream	advmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dream	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dream	det
30	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 discover	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 what	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 what	cc
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 dream	appos
34	else	else	ADV	_	33 what	advmod
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 be	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 be	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past · passive		the next night		tree rules
2	watch	to-infinitive			by the princess's bed	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location
3	discover	to-infinitive				vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	bed	a dream		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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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