The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 130

When he became tired of searching for it he crept into the baking- oven, intending to lie down there and sleep till morning; but just at that moment he heard the witch calling from her bed to one of her daughters, and telling her to make some porridge for her.

Who acts: king, witch · What happens: become, search, creep, intend, lie down, sleep · To what, where: baking oven, witch, one, bed, porridge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, witch), 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	3 became	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crept	advcl
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 searching	case
6	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 searching	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crept	nsubj
10	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	15 oven	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 oven	det
13	baking	baking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 oven	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 baking	punct
15	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crept	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 intending	punct
17	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 crept	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 lie	mark
19	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 intending	xcomp
20	down	down	ADV	_	21 there	advmod
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 lie	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sleep	cc
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lie	conj
24	till	till	ADP	_	25 morning	case
25	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sleep	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 heard	cc
28	just	just	ADV	_	33 heard	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 moment	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 moment	det
31	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	nsubj
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crept	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 witch	det
35	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obj
36	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 witch	acl
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 bed	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 bed	nmod:poss
39	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 calling	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 one	case
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 calling	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 daughters	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 daughters	nmod:poss
44	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 one	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 telling	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 telling	cc
47	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 heard	conj
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 telling	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 make	mark
50	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 telling	advcl
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	52 porridge	det
52	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 make	obj
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 her	case
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 make	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	king					tired property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	search	gerund						for chimney	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
3	creep	past	king			the baking oven			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into oven=Destination
4	intend	gerund	king not said here						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lie down not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	present	king not said here				morning		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hear	past	king	the witch			moment		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus
8	call	gerund	the witch not said here		one of Witch's daughters	Witch's bed			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
9	tell speech: assert	gerund	king not said here		Witch				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
10	make	to-infinitive	king not said here	some porridge				for Witch	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent porridge=Material for she=Beneficiary

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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