The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 191

Instead of having their heads cut off in the usual way, their faces were bathed with the water, and they instantly fell asleep and never woke up any more.

Who acts: heads, people · What happens: have, cut off, bath, fall, not wake up · To what, where: heads, usual way, faces

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, people), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 having	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 bathed	advcl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heads	nmod:poss
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 having	obj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 having	xcomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 having	punct
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 faces	nmod:poss
14	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bathed	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bathed	aux:pass
16	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bathed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	nsubj
23	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	24 fell	advmod
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bathed	conj
25	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fell	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 woke	cc
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 woke	advmod
28	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fell	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 woke	compound:prt
30	any	any	ADV	_	31 more	advmod
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 woke	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 bathed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		people's heads			tree rules
2	cut off	participle	people's heads not said here		the usual way		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	bath	past · passive		people's faces		with the water	tree rules
4	fall	past	people			asleep, instantly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not wake up	past	people not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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