The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 133
Unnoticed by anyone, the ogress crept into a curtain, changing herself into a scorpion, and when the brother was going to get into bed, she stung him behind the ear, so that he fell dead where he stood.
Who acts: ogress, brother · What happens: unnotic, creep, change, go, get, sting · To what, where: curtain, ogress, bed, brother, ear
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, brother), 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 | Unnoticed | unnotic | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 anyone | case |
| 3 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Unnoticed | obl:agent |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crept | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ogress | det |
| 6 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crept | nsubj |
| 7 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Unnoticed | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 curtain | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 curtain | det |
| 10 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 changing | punct |
| 12 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 crept | advcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 changing | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 scorpion | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 scorpion | det |
| 16 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 going | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 going | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brother | det |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 crept | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 going | xcomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 bed | case |
| 27 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stung | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stung | nsubj |
| 30 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crept | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stung | obj |
| 32 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 34 ear | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ear | det |
| 34 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stung | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fell | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 39 fell | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 fell | nsubj |
| 39 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 stung | conj |
| 40 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fell | xcomp |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 stood | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 stood | nsubj |
| 43 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 fell | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unnoticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unnotic | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | creep | past | the ogress | a curtain | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into curtain=Destination | ||||
| 3 | change | gerund | the ogress not said here | ogress | into a scorpion result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into scorpion=Result | |||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | the brother | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | the brother not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sting | past | ogress | brother | the ear | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | fall | past | brother | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | stand | past | brother | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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