English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 16

Now he had three lassies of his own, and they were to sleep in the same bed with the three strangers.

Who acts: voice, lassies · What happens: have, sleep · To what, where: three lassies, same bed

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, lassies), 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	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lassies	nummod
5	lassies	lassie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lassies	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sleep	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sleep	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sleep	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sleep	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sleep	mark
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 bed	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bed	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bed	amod
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleep	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 strangers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 strangers	det
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 strangers	nummod
22	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sleep	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	voice	three lassies of voice's own			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lassie=Patient
2	sleep	past	lassies = lassie			the same bed		with the three strangers	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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