The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 185

At night, when the young King was asleep, his wife had to pull the clothes off him, and pour the pail full of little gudgeons over him, so that the little fish swam all about him.

Who acts: young King, wife, little fish · What happens: be, have, pull, pour, swim · To what, where: clothes, pail

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 (young King, wife, little fish), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 King	amod
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pull	mark
15	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 clothes	det
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 pull	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pull	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pour	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pour	cc
22	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pull	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pail	det
24	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pour	obj
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pail	amod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 gudgeons	case
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gudgeons	amod
28	gudgeons	gudgeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 full	obl
29	over	over	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gudgeons	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 swam	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 swam	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fish	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fish	amod
36	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 swam	nsubj
37	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pour	conj
38	all	all	ADV	_	40 him	advmod
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 swam	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young King		night	asleep property	tree rules
2	have	past	King's wife				tree rules
3	pull	to-infinitive	King's wife not said here	the clothes		off King	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme off he=Initial_Location
4	pour	infinitive	King's wife not said here	the pail			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Patient
5	swim	past	the little fish			about King	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about he=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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