The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 67

The Ogre’s wife, who believed she could conceal them from her husband till morning, let them come in, and brought them to warm themselves at a very good fire; for there was a whole sheep upon the spit, roasting for the Ogre’s supper.

Who acts: wife, wolves · What happens: believe, conceal, let, come in, bring, warm · To what, where: wolves, good fire, whole sheep · 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 (wife, wolves), 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	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Ogre	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 believed	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 believed	nsubj
7	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 conceal	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 conceal	aux
10	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 believed	ccomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 conceal	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 husband	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conceal	obl
15	till	till	ADP	_	16 morning	case
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conceal	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 conceal	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brought	cc
24	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 believed	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 warm	mark
27	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 brought	advcl
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 warm	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 fire	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 fire	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 good	advmod
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fire	amod
33	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 warm	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 sheep	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 was	mark
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sheep	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 sheep	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sheep	amod
40	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	parataxis
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 spit	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 spit	det
43	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sheep	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 roasting	punct
45	roasting	roast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 brought	advcl
46	for	for	ADP	_	50 supper	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Ogre	det
48	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 supper	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 Ogre	case
50	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 roasting	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the Ogre's wife					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	conceal	could	wife	wolves = wolf		morning	from wife's husband	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from husband=Beneficiary
3	let	infinitive	wife not said here	wolves = wolf				tree rules
4	come in	infinitive	wolves = wolf not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring	past	the Ogre's wife not said here	wolves = wolf				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	warm	to-infinitive	the Ogre's wife not said here	wolves = wolf	a good fire			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
7	is a	past		a whole sheep			upon the spit	tree rules
8	roast	gerund	the Ogre's wife not said here				for the Ogre's supper	vn cooking-45.3 «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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