The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 96

All this succeeded according to his desire; for, the Ogre waking about midnight, and sorry that he deferred to do that till morning which he might have done over-night, threw himself hastily out of bed, and, taking his great knife,

Who acts: this, Ogre · What happens: succeed, accord, wake, defer, do, throw · To what, where: that, morning, ogre, bed, great knife

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 (this, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 succeeded	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 succeeded	nsubj
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 desire	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 according	fixed
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 desire	nmod:poss
7	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 succeeded	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 Ogre	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 Ogre	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Ogre	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Ogre	det
12	Ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 succeeded	obl
13	waking	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 Ogre	acl
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 midnight	case
15	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sorry	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sorry	cc
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 succeeded	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 deferred	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 deferred	nsubj
21	deferred	defer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sorry	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 deferred	xcomp
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 do	obj
25	till	till	ADP	_	26 morning	case
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 done	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 done	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 morning	acl:relcl
32	over-night	over-night	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 done	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 threw	punct
34	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 succeeded	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 threw	obj
36	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	34 threw	advmod
37	out	out	ADP	_	39 bed	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 bed	case
39	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 threw	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 taking	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 taking	cc
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 taking	punct
43	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 succeeded	advcl
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 knife	nmod:poss
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 knife	amod
46	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 taking	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 succeeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	succeed	past	this				accord ogre's desire; for the Ogre	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	wake	gerund	the Ogre not said here			midnight		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	defer	past	ogre					vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do	to-infinitive	ogre not said here	that		morning		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
6	do	might · perfect	ogre	morning			over-night property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
7	throw	past	this not said here	ogre	bed		hastily property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme out bed=Initial_Location
8	take	gerund	this not said here	ogre's great knife				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
9	desire		ogre					nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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