The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 11

That night, when her father was asleep, she crept softly into his chamber and took out an enchanted knife from the chest where he kept his treasures, and hid it carefully in a safe place before she went to bed.

Who acts: father, daughter · What happens: be, creep, take out, enchant, keep, hide · To what, where: chamber, enchanted knife, chest, treasures, knife, safe place

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, daughter), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crept	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asleep	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 asleep	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asleep	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asleep	cop
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crept	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 crept	nsubj
11	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	softly	softly	ADV	_	11 crept	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 chamber	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 chamber	nmod:poss
15	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crept	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crept	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 knife	det
20	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 knife	amod
21	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 chest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 chest	det
24	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 kept	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kept	nsubj
27	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 chest	acl:relcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 treasures	nmod:poss
29	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kept	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hid	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hid	cc
32	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crept	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hid	obj
34	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	32 hid	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 place	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 place	det
37	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 place	amod
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hid	obl
39	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 went	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 went	nsubj
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hid	advcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 bed	case
43	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 went	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	daughter's father				asleep property	tree rules
2	creep	past	daughter		father's chamber	night	softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Destination
3	take out	past	daughter not said here	a enchanted knife	the chest			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from chest=Initial_Location
4	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	keep	past	father	father's treasures				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
6	hide	past	daughter not said here	knife	a safe place		carefully property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in place=Location
7	go	past	daughter		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
8	treasure		father					nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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