The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 37

When the third St. John’s night came neither of the two elder brothers dared to lie in the outlying barn to watch the grass, for they had been so heartily frightened the night that they had slept there that they could not get over it, but Cinderlad dared to go, and everything happened just the same as on the two former nights.

Who acts: night, two elder brothers, sons, Cinderlad, everything · What happens: come, dare, lie, outlie, watch, have · To what, where: outlying barn, grass

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, two elder brothers, sons, Cinderlad), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	8 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 John	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 John	amod
4	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 John	nmod:desc
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 night	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 John	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dared	advcl
9	neither	neither	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 neither	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brothers	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 brothers	nummod
13	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brothers	amod
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dared	nsubj
15	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lie	mark
17	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 dared	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 barn	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 barn	det
20	outlying	outlie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 barn	amod
21	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lie	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 watch	mark
23	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 lie	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grass	det
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watch	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 had	case
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dared	conj
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 frightened	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 frightened	advmod
32	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	33 frightened	advmod
33	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 had	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 night	det
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 frightened	obl:unmarked
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 slept	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 slept	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 slept	aux
39	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 frightened	advcl
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 slept	advmod
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 get	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 get	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 get	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 get	advmod
45	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 slept	advcl
46	over	over	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 get	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 dared	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 dared	cc
50	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 dared	nsubj
51	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 had	parataxis
52	to	to	PART	_	53 go	mark
53	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 dared	xcomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 happened	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 happened	cc
56	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	57 happened	nsubj
57	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 dared	conj
58	just	just	ADV	_	60 same	advmod
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 same	det
60	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 happened	xcomp
61	as	as	ADP	_	66 nights	case
62	on	on	ADP	_	66 nights	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 nights	det
64	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	66 nights	nummod
65	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 nights	amod
66	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 same	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the third John St.'s night				neither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dare	past	the two elder brothers					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lie	to-infinitive	the two elder brothers not said here		the outlying barn			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in barn=Location
4	outlie	gerund						tree rules
5	watch	to-infinitive	the two elder brothers not said here	the grass				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
6	have	past	sons = son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	participle				night	frighten, heartily property	tree rules
8	sleep	past · perfect	sons = son		there			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	not get	could	sons = son		grass			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination
10	dare	past	Cinderlad					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	go	to-infinitive	Cinderlad not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	happen	past	everything				same property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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