The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 100

Then he went to the bed where the girls lay; and, having found the boys’ little bonnets,

Who acts: ogre, girls · What happens: go, lay, find · To what, where: bed, little bonnets

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, girls), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 lay	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girls	det
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lay	nsubj
10	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bed	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 found	aux
15	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boys	det
17	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bonnets	nmod:poss
18	’	's	PART	_	17 boys	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bonnets	amod
20	bonnets	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 found	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	ogre		the bed	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	lay	present	the girls				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find	gerund · perfect	ogre not said here	the boys's little bonnets			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bonnet=Topic

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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