The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 6

No evil ever befell them; if they tarried late in the wood and night overtook them, they lay down together on the moss and slept till morning, and their mother knew they were quite safe, and never felt anxious about them.

Who acts: evil, roses, wood, mother · What happens: befall, tarry, overtake, lay down, sleep, know · To what, where: roses, wood, moss · 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 (evil, roses, wood, mother), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 evil	det
2	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 befell	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 befell	advmod
4	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 befell	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tarried	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 tarried	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tarried	nsubj
9	tarried	tarry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 befell	conj
10	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 tarried	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tarried	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 night	cc
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wood	conj
16	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wood	acl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 overtook	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tarried	advcl
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
22	together	together	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 moss	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moss	det
25	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 slept	cc
27	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tarried	conj
28	till	till	ADP	_	29 morning	case
29	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slept	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 knew	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 knew	cc
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 knew	nsubj
34	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 befell	conj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 safe	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 safe	cop
37	quite	quite	ADV	_	38 safe	advmod
38	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 knew	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 felt	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 felt	cc
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 felt	advmod
42	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 befell	conj
43	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 felt	xcomp
44	about	about	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 anxious	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 befell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	befall	past	no evil	roses = rose		ever		tree rules
2	tarry a condition, not said to happen	past	roses = rose		the wood and night		late property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
3	overtake	past	the wood and night not said here	roses = rose				tree rules
4	lay down	present	roses = rose		the moss		down, together property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on moss=Destination
5	sleep	past	roses = rose not said here			morning		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	know	past	roses's mother					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	roses = rose				safe property	tree rules
8	not feel	past	no evil not said here				anxious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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