The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 116

Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in playing tricks upon each other.

Who acts: Nobody · What happens: go, pass, play · To what, where: bed, tricks

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 passed	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 passed	advmod
8	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passed	obl:unmarked
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 playing	mark
12	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 passed	advcl
13	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 playing	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	12 playing	obl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Nobody		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	pass	past				night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	gerund		tricks			upon each	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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