The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 94

There was in the same chamber a bed of the like bigness, and it was into this bed the Ogre’s wife put the seven little boys, after which she went to bed to her husband.

Who acts: bed, wife · What happens: be, go · To what, where: bed, husband

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 (bed, wife), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 put	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 chamber	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chamber	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chamber	amod
6	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chamber	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 bigness	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bigness	det
11	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bigness	amod
12	bigness	bigness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bed	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bed	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bed	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bed	cop
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 bed	det
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Ogre	det
21	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 wife	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Ogre	case
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boys	det
26	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 boys	nummod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boys	amod
28	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 went	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 put	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 bed	case
35	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 husband	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 husband	nmod:poss
38	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	bed		this bed		tree rules
2	is	past	the Ogre's wife			put property	tree rules
3	go	past	wife	wife's husband	bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location to husband=Destination

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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