The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 92

They were not as yet over and above mischievous, but they promised very fair for it, for they had already bitten little children, that they might suck their blood.

Who acts: ogresses · What happens: not be, be, promise, bite, suck · To what, where: ogresses, blood

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 over	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 over	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mischievous	cc
8	above	above	ADP	_	9 mischievous	case
9	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 over	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 promised	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 promised	nsubj
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mischievous	parataxis
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 fair	advmod
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 promised	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fair	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bitten	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 bitten	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bitten	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bitten	aux
22	already	already	ADV	_	23 bitten	advmod
23	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 promised	conj
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 children	amod
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bitten	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 suck	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 suck	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 suck	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 suck	aux
30	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bitten	parataxis
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 blood	nmod:poss
32	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 suck	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 over	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	ogresses = ogress		yet	over property	tree rules
2	be		ogresses = ogress not said here				tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past	ogresses = ogress			fair property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	bite	past · perfect · passive		ogresses = ogress			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient child=Result
5	suck	might	ogresses = ogress	ogresses's blood			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=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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