The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 24

Now in a little while he saw the wife of the ogre steal into the room on tiptoe and spread a red cloth over the brothers and then go and cover her daughters with a white cloth.

Who acts: Halfman, wife · What happens: see, steal, spread, go, cover · To what, where: room, red cloth, 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 (Halfman, wife), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 saw	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 while	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 while	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 while	amod
5	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 steal	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ogre	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ogre	det
12	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod
13	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	parataxis
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 steal	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 tiptoe	case
18	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spread	cc
20	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cloth	det
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cloth	amod
23	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spread	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 brothers	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 brothers	det
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 spread	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 go	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 go	advmod
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 spread	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cover	cc
31	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 daughters	nmod:poss
33	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cover	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 cloth	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cloth	det
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cloth	amod
37	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cover	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Halfman				now; while		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	steal	present	the wife of the ogre			the room on tiptoe			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spread	past	Halfman not said here	a red cloth				over the brothers	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over brother=Destination
4	go	infinitive	Halfman not said here				then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cover	infinitive	Halfman not said here		wife's daughters			with a white cloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination with cloth=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 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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