The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 91
He had at the same time taken up little Morning, and carried her to his wife, to conceal her in the lodging he had at the bottom of the courtyard.
Who acts: Ogress, same time · What happens: have, take up, carry, conceal · To what, where: little Morning, lamb, wife, lodging, bottom
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 (Ogress, same time), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 taken | compound:prt |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Morning | amod |
| 10 | Morning | Morning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 conceal | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 conceal | mark |
| 20 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 carried | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 conceal | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 lodging | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lodging | det |
| 24 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 conceal | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lodging | acl:relcl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 bottom | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bottom | det |
| 29 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 courtyard | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 courtyard | det |
| 32 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bottom | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ogress | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take up | participle | the same time not said here | little Morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | lamb | Ogress's wife | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to wife=Destination | ||||
| 4 | conceal | to-infinitive | lamb | the lodging | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in lodging=Location | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Ogress | the lodging not said here | the bottom of the courtyard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Patient |
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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