The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 164
But the seventh Dwarf slept with his companions one hour in each bed, and in this way he managed to pass the night.
Who acts: seventh Dwarf, seventh · What happens: sleep, manage, pass · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seventh Dwarf, seventh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:3870): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 slept | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dwarf | det |
| 3 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Dwarf | amod |
| 4 | Dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | nsubj |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 companions | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 companions | nmod:poss |
| 8 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slept | obl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hour | nummod |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 bed | det |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hour | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 managed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 managed | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 managed | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 managed | nsubj |
| 20 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slept | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pass | mark |
| 22 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 managed | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pass | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the seventh Dwarf | hour | with seventh's companions | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | manage | past | seventh | this way | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | seventh not said here | night | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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