The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 8

Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in rallying and joking with each other.

Who acts: Nobody · What happens: go, pass, joke · To what, where: bed, rallying

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 passed	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 passed	advmod
8	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passed	obl:unmarked
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 rallying	case
12	rallying	rallying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 joking	cc
14	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 rallying	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 joking	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Nobody	bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	pass	past		rallying	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in rallying=Location
3	joke speech: other	gerund				with each	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-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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