The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 26

When Halfman was quite sure she was sound asleep, he took the red cloth from his brothers and put it on the girls, and laid their white cloth over his brothers.

Who acts: Halfman, wife · What happens: be, take, put, lay · To what, where: red cloth, cloth, white cloth

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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 sure	mark
2	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sure	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 sure	advmod
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asleep	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
8	sound	sound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asleep	amod
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sure	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cloth	det
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cloth	amod
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 brothers	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brothers	nmod:poss
18	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 took	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 girls	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girls	det
24	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 laid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laid	cc
27	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cloth	nmod:poss
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cloth	amod
30	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laid	obj
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 brothers	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brothers	nmod:poss
33	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 laid	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Halfman		sure property	tree rules
2	is	past	wife		asleep property	tree rules
3	take	past	Halfman	the red cloth	from Halfman's brothers	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme from brother=Initial_Location
4	put	infinitive	Halfman not said here	cloth	on the girls	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on girl=Destination
5	lay	past	Halfman not said here	girls's white cloth	over Halfman's brothers	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over brother=Destination

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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