The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 245

Then she gave him her night-gown, but just then it came into his head that he had forgotten to lock the door, and he was forced to go downstairs and do it before he could lie down in bed again.

Who acts: tap, sheet, father · What happens: give, come, forget, not lock, force, go · To what, where: night gown, father, head, door, sheet, bed

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tap, sheet, father), 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	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gown	nmod:poss
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gown	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 night	punct
8	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 then	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 came	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 forgotten	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forgotten	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 forgotten	aux
21	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 lock	mark
23	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 forgotten	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lock	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 forced	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 forced	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 forced	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 forced	aux:pass
30	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gave	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 forced	xcomp
33	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	32 go	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 do	cc
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 go	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 do	obj
37	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 lie	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lie	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 lie	aux
40	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 go	advcl
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 lie	compound:prt
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 bed	case
43	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lie	obl
44	again	again	ADV	_	40 lie	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	tap	tap's night gown	father		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gown=Theme
2	come	past	sheet			father's head	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location
3	forget	past · perfect	father						tree rules
4	not lock	to-infinitive	father not said here	the door					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	force	past · passive		father					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go	to-infinitive	father not said here					downstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do	infinitive	father not said here	sheet					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
8	lie down	could	father			bed	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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