The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 87

And when night came he took in his hand a thick stick, wrapped himself in the coverlet, and wished himself in the chamber of the princess.

Who acts: night, Ciccu · What happens: come, take, wrap, wish · To what, where: thick stick, hand, Ciccu, coverlet, chamber

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Ciccu), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stick	det
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stick	amod
12	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrapped	punct
14	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 wrapped	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 coverlet	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coverlet	det
18	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wrapped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wished	cc
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 wished	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 chamber	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chamber	det
25	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wished	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 princess	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 princess	det
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chamber	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	Ciccu	a thick stick	Ciccu's hand	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Value in hand=Location
3	wrap	past	Ciccu not said here	Ciccu	the coverlet	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in coverlet=Destination
4	wish	past	Ciccu not said here	Ciccu	the chamber of the princess	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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 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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