The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 31

When it was time to retire for the night, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear: “You can lie there on the hearth, in heaven’s name; it will be shelter for you from the cold and wet.”

Who acts: lover, mother, others, bear, heaven · What happens: be, retire, go, say, lie, name · To what, where: time, bed, bear, cold, hearth, shelter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, mother, others, bear), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 time	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 time	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 time	cop
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl:unmarked
5	to	to	PART	_	6 retire	mark
6	retire	retire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retire	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 time	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 bed	case
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mother	det
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 bear	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bear	det
23	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 lie	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 lie	punct
26	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 lie	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 lie	aux
28	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	conj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 lie	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 hearth	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hearth	det
32	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lie	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 name	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 name	case
35	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 name	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 heaven	case
37	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lie	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 shelter	punct
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 shelter	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 shelter	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 shelter	cop
42	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 you	case
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 shelter	nmod
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 cold	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 cold	det
47	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 wet	cc
49	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 cold	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 cold	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	47 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lover	time					tree rules
2	retire	to-infinitive	the mother not said here				night		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	the others			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the mother		the bear	the cold			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bear=Recipient
5	lie in a quote	can	the bear = bear			the hearth; there		in heaven's name	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hearth=Location
6	is a in a quote	future	lover	shelter				for the bear = bear	tree rules
7	name in a quote		heaven						nom name «communication 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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