The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 66

So, with great care, she made some of the proper cake to pacify the lions, and one night went up to her room very early, pretending that she was going to bed; but instead of that, she wrapped herself in a long white veil, and went down a secret staircase, and set off all by herself to find the Witch.

Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: make, pacify, go up, pretend, go, wrap · To what, where: some, lions, bed, Bellissima, long white veil, secret staircase

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 made	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 care	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 care	amod
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 made	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 cake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cake	det
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cake	amod
13	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 some	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pacify	mark
15	pacify	pacify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lions	det
17	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pacify	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 night	nummod
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl:unmarked
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 went	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 room	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 room	nmod:poss
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 early	advmod
28	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 went	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pretending	punct
30	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 went	advcl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 going	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 going	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 going	aux
34	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 pretending	ccomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 bed	case
36	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 going	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 wrapped	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 that	cc
39	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	41 that	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	39 instead	fixed
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 wrapped	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 that	punct
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 wrapped	nsubj
44	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	conj
45	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 wrapped	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	50 veil	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 veil	det
48	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 veil	amod
49	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 veil	amod
50	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wrapped	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 went	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 went	cc
53	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 wrapped	conj
54	down	down	ADP	_	53 went	compound:prt
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 staircase	det
56	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 staircase	amod
57	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 went	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 set	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 set	cc
60	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	conj
61	off	off	ADP	_	60 set	compound:prt
62	all	all	ADV	_	64 herself	advmod
63	by	by	ADP	_	64 herself	case
64	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	60 set	obl
65	to	to	PART	_	66 find	mark
66	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 set	advcl
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 Witch	det
68	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 find	obj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Bellissima	some			with great care	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Product
2	pacify	to-infinitive	Bellissima not said here	the lions				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lion=Experiencer
3	go up	past	Bellissima not said here			night	to Bellissima's room; early property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	pretend	gerund	Bellissima not said here					tree rules
5	go	past · progressive	Bellissima		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
6	wrap	past	Bellissima	Bellissima	a long white veil		instead that	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in veil=Destination
7	go down	past	Bellissima not said here	a secret staircase				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	set off	infinitive	Bellissima not said here				by Bellissima	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	find	to-infinitive	Bellissima not said here	the Witch				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic

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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