The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 33

From this time on the bear came every evening at the same hour, and lay down by the hearth and let the children play what pranks they liked with him; and they got so accustomed to him that the door was never shut till their black friend had made his appearance.

Who acts: children, door · What happens: come, lay down, let, play, like, get · To what, where: pranks, other, black friend

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 (children, door), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bear	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 evening	det
9	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 hour	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hour	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hour	amod
13	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
16	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 lay	compound:prt
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 hearth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hearth	det
20	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lay	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 children	det
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 play	nsubj
25	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 let	parataxis
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 play	parataxis
27	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 what	nsubj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 liked	nsubj
29	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pranks	acl:relcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 liked	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 got	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 got	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
36	so	so	ADV	_	35 got	advmod
37	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 got	xcomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 accustomed	obl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 shut	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 door	det
42	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 shut	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 shut	cop
44	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	45 shut	advmod
45	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 accustomed	advcl
46	till	till	SCONJ	_	51 made	mark
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 friend	nmod:poss
48	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 friend	amod
49	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	nsubj:pass
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 made	aux
51	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 shut	advcl
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 appearance	nmod:poss
53	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				evening; hour; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down	infinitive					by the hearth	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hearth=Destination
3	let	infinitive						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	play	present	the children					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	like	past	children = child	pranks not said here			with other	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prank=Theme
6	get	past	children = child					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	accustom	participle	children = child not said here		other			tree rules
8	not is	past	the door				shut property	tree rules
9	make	past · perfect · passive		children's black friend				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary appearance=Product

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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