The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 93
They had been put to bed early, with every one a crown of gold upon her head.
What happens: put, crown · To what, where: ogresses, gold
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: 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 | 4 put | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 put | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crown | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crown | compound |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crown | det |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crown | nmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crown | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect · passive | ogresses = ogress | to bed; a one crown of gold upon calf's head obl; early property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | crown | gold | upon calf's head | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient upon=obl |
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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