The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 91

The Ogre had seven daughters, all little children, and these young ogresses had all of them very fine complexions, because they used to eat fresh meat like their father; but they had little gray eyes, quite round, hooked noses, and very long sharp teeth, standing at a good distance from each other.

Who acts: Ogre, young ogresses, ogresses · What happens: have, use, eat, hook, stand · To what, where: seven daughters, all, fresh meat, little gray eyes

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 ogresses, ogresses), 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	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 daughters	nummod
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 children	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 children	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 daughters	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 ogresses	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ogresses	amod
14	ogresses	ogress	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 had	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 all	nmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 fine	advmod
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 complexions	amod
21	complexions	complexion	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 used	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 used	nsubj
25	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 used	xcomp
28	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 meat	amod
29	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obj
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 father	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meat	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 eyes	amod
38	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 eyes	amod
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 had	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 round	punct
41	quite	quite	ADV	_	42 round	advmod
42	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 had	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 noses	punct
44	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 noses	amod
45	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 round	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 teeth	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 teeth	cc
48	very	very	ADV	_	49 long	advmod
49	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 teeth	amod
50	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 teeth	amod
51	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 had	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 standing	punct
53	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 had	advcl
54	at	at	ADP	_	57 distance	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 distance	det
56	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 distance	amod
57	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 standing	obl
58	from	from	ADP	_	59 each	case
59	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	57 distance	nmod
60	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 each	fixed
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Ogre	seven daughters		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	have	past	this young ogresses	all		tree rules
3	use	past	ogresses = ogress			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	eat	to-infinitive	ogresses = ogress not said here	fresh meat	like ogresses's father	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
5	have	past	ogresses = ogress	little gray eyes	long sharp teeth obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
6	hook	participle				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
7	stand	gerund	ogresses = ogress not said here		at a good distance from each	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=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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