The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 90

He drank a dozen glasses more than ordinary, which got up into his head and obliged him to go to bed.

Who acts: ogre · What happens: drink, get up, oblige, go · To what, where: more, head, ogre, bed

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dozen	det
4	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 glasses	nummod
5	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 more	nsubj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 drank	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ordinary	case
8	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 more	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 obliged	cc
17	obliged	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 obliged	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 obliged	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 bed	case
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drink	past	ogre	more		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2	get up	past			ogre's head	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into head=Destination
3	oblige	past	ogre not said here	ogre		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
4	go	to-infinitive	ogre not said here		bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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