The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 57

They looked under the bed, and behind the curtains, and into the cupboards, then came to the conclusion that the princess had had a bad dream, and bowed themselves out.

Who acts: guards, princess · What happens: look, come, have, bow out · To what, where: cupboards, bad dream, guards

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, princess), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 bed	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bed	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 curtains	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 curtains	cc
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 curtains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 curtains	det
10	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 cupboards	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cupboards	det
15	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cupboards	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 came	advmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 conclusion	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 conclusion	det
21	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 had	aux
26	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dream	det
28	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dream	amod
29	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bowed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bowed	cc
32	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
33	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 bowed	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	32 bowed	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	guards = guard				behind the curtains; under the bed	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under bed=Theme
2	come	past	guards = guard not said here		the cupboards	then	to the conclusion	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into cupboard=Initial_Location to conclusion=Destination
3	have	past · perfect	the princess	a bad dream				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
4	bow out	past	guards = guard not said here	guards = guard				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: «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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