The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 108

The Ogre, when he awoke, said to his wife: “Go upstairs and dress those young rascals who came here last night.”

Who acts: ogre, young rascals · What happens: awake, say, go, dress, come · To what, where: wife, young rascals · Speech: someone speaks here

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, young rascals), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ogre	det
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 awoke	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 awoke	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 awoke	nsubj
6	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Ogre	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ogre	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 wife	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
14	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
15	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	14 Go	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dress	cc
17	dress	dress	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 Go	conj
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 rascals	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rascals	amod
20	rascals	rascal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dress	obj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rascals	acl:relcl
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 came	advmod
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 night	amod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	ogre						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Ogre		ogre's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive						upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dress in a quote	infinitive		that young rascals					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rascal=Patient
5	come in a quote	past	that young rascals			here	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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