The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 151

‘When we lay down to sleep, she spread a red cloth over us, and covered her daughters with a white one; but I changed the cloths, and when the ogress came back in the middle of the night, and looked at the cloths, she mistook her own daughters for my brothers, and killed them one by one, all but the youngest.

Who acts: we, ogress, I · What happens: lay down, sleep, spread, cover, change, come back · To what, where: red cloth, daughters, cloths, middle, own daughters

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 (we, ogress, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 lay	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spread	nsubj
10	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloth	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cloth	amod
13	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spread	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 spread	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 covered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 covered	cc
18	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spread	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughters	nmod:poss
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 covered	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 one	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 covered	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 changed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 changed	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 changed	nsubj
28	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cloths	det
30	cloths	cloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 changed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 mistook	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 mistook	cc
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 came	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ogress	det
35	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 mistook	advcl
37	back	back	ADV	_	36 came	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 middle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 middle	det
40	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 night	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 night	det
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 middle	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 looked	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 looked	cc
46	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 came	conj
47	at	at	ADP	_	49 cloths	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 cloths	det
49	cloths	cloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 looked	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 mistook	nsubj
52	mistook	mistake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	parataxis
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 daughters	nmod:poss
54	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 daughters	amod
55	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 mistook	obj
56	for	for	ADP	_	58 brothers	case
57	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 brothers	nmod:poss
58	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 mistook	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 killed	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 killed	cc
61	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 mistook	conj
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 killed	obj
63	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	61 killed	obj
64	by	by	ADP	_	65 one	case
65	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	63 one	nmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 youngest	punct
67	all	all	ADV	_	70 youngest	advmod
68	but	but	CCONJ	_	70 youngest	cc
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 youngest	det
70	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	61 killed	advcl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay down	present	we				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	to-infinitive	we not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spread	past	ogress	a red cloth			over us	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over we=Destination
4	cover	past	ogress not said here		ogress's daughters		with a white one	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination with one=Theme
5	change	past	I	the cloths				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient
6	come back	past	the ogress			the middle of the night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
7	look	past	the ogress not said here				at the cloths	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cloth=Theme
8	mistake	past	ogress	ogress's own daughters			for my brothers	tree rules
9	kill	past	ogress not said here	daughters = daughter				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer one=Result

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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