The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 88

The poor man, knowing very well that he must not play tricks with Ogresses, took his great knife and went up into little Morning’s chamber.

Who acts: poor man, Ogress · What happens: know, not play, take, go up · To what, where: tricks, great knife, chamber

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, Ogress), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knowing	punct
5	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 man	acl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 knowing	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 play	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 play	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 play	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 play	advmod
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 knowing	xcomp
13	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 play	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 Ogresses	case
15	Ogresses	ogress	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 play	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 knife	nmod:poss
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 knife	amod
20	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
23	up	up	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	into	into	ADP	_	28 chamber	case
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Morning	amod
26	Morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chamber	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Morning	case
28	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	gerund	the poor man not said here			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not play	must	Ogress	tricks		with Ogresses	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with ogress=Co-Agent
3	take	past	the poor man	Ogress's great knife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	go up	past	the poor man not said here		little Morning's chamber		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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