The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 80

Then they both went to his room, but he slept so soundly that she could not wake him.

Who acts: toads, maid, bride · What happens: go, sleep, not wake · To what, where: room, maid

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toads, maid, bride), 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	4 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 room	nmod:poss
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slept	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slept	nsubj
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 soundly	advmod
13	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	11 slept	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 wake	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wake	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 wake	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 wake	advmod
18	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 slept	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wake	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	toads = toad		maid's room	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
2	sleep	past	maid				soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not wake	could	bride	maid				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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