The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 132

That night he and his wife went to bed at the usual time; and when she thought he had fallen asleep she got up, opened the door, and then lay down again.

Who acts: tailor, wife · What happens: go, think, fall, get up, open, lay down · To what, where: bed, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, wife), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wife	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 he	conj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 thought	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fallen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fallen	aux
21	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 thought	ccomp
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fallen	xcomp
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fallen	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 got	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 opened	punct
27	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 got	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opened	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lay	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 lay	advmod
33	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 fallen	parataxis
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 lay	advmod
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 lay	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	tailor		bed	night; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	think speech: other	past	wife					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	fall	past · perfect	tailor				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get up	past	wife					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	open	past	wife not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
6	lay down	infinitive				then; again	down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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