The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 100

So, in spite of her dread of the ogre, she slept till dawn, when her father woke her, and told her roughly that he was ready to continue their journey.

Who acts: ogre, father, Thakane · What happens: sleep, wake, tell, be, continue, spite · To what, where: spite, ogre, journey, dread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, father, Thakane), 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	_	13 slept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spite	case
4	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slept	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 dread	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dread	nmod:poss
7	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spite	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ogre	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ogre	det
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dread	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spite	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 slept	nsubj
13	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	till	till	ADP	_	15 dawn	case
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slept	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 woke	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 woke	advmod
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 woke	nsubj
20	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 slept	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 woke	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 woke	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	30 ready	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 ready	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ready	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ready	cop
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 told	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 continue	mark
32	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ready	xcomp
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 journey	nmod:poss
34	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 continue	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	ogre			spite of ogre's dread of the ogre	dawn		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in spite=Location
2	wake	past	ogre's father	ogre					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	ogre's father not said here		ogre				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is	past	Thakane					ready, roughly property	tree rules
5	continue	to-infinitive	Thakane not said here	father's journey					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
6	spite			ogre's dread of the ogre					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	dread		ogre	the ogre					nom dread «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
8	journey		father						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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