The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 109
But when he wished to close his eyes the bed began to move by itself, and ran all round the castle.
Who acts: other · What happens: wish, close, begin, move, run · To what, where: eyes, castle
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 wished | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 close | mark |
| 6 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 close | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 move | mark |
| 13 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 itself | case |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 move | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | conj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 castle | advmod |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | other | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | close not said to happen | to-infinitive | other not said here | other's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | move | to-infinitive | by bed | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by itself=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | run | past | the castle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round castle=Trajectory |
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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