The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 43

Then the two brothers mocked him just as they had done before, and told him that they could see that he must have watched the grass very carefully that night, for he looked just as if he were walking in his sleep; but Cinderlad did not trouble himself about that, but just bade them go to the field and see.

Who acts: two brothers, others, boy, Cinderlad · What happens: mock, do, tell, see, watch, look · To what, where: boy, grass, sleep, trouble, bade, field · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (two brothers, others, boy, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 mocked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mocked	nsubj
5	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mocked	obj
7	just	just	ADV	_	11 done	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 done	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 mocked	advcl
12	before	before	ADV	_	11 done	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mocked	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 see	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	ccomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 watched	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 watched	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 watched	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 watched	aux
25	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 see	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 watched	obj
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 carefully	advmod
29	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	25 watched	advmod
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 watched	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 looked	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 looked	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 looked	nsubj
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 watched	parataxis
36	just	just	ADV	_	41 walking	advmod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 walking	mark
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 walking	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 walking	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 walking	aux
41	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 looked	advcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 sleep	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 sleep	nmod:poss
44	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 walking	obl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 did	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 did	cc
47	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 did	nsubj
48	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mocked	conj
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 trouble	advmod
50	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 did	obj
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	50 trouble	nmod:unmarked
52	about	about	ADP	_	53 that	case
53	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 did	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 go	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 bade	cc
56	just	just	ADV	_	57 bade	advmod
57	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 go	obl
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 bade	obj
59	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mocked	parataxis
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 field	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 field	det
62	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 go	obl
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 see	cc
64	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 go	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past	the two brothers	boy			then		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	others = other					before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the two brothers not said here		boy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	see	could	others = other						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	watch	must · perfect	boy	the grass			night	carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
6	look	past	boy						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	walk	past · progressive	boy			boy's sleep			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sleep=Trajectory
8	do	past	Cinderlad	trouble boy				about that	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality
9	go	present		bade		the field			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location
10	see	infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	sleep		boy						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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