English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 2

One night she was woke up at midnight, and when she went downstairs, she saw a strange squinny-eyed, little ugly old fellow, who asked her to come to his wife who was too ill to mind her baby.

Who acts: Dame, strange eyed ugly old fellow, wife · What happens: be, go, see, ask, come, mind · To what, where: strange eyed ugly old fellow, Dame, baby

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, strange eyed ugly old fellow, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woke	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 woke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woke	cop
5	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 woke	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 went	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	advcl
14	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woke	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fellow	det
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fellow	amod
20	squinny	squinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eyed	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 squinny	punct
22	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fellow	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eyed	punct
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ugly	amod
25	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fellow	amod
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fellow	amod
27	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asked	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 asked	nsubj
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fellow	acl:relcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 asked	iobj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 come	mark
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 asked	xcomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 wife	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wife	nmod:poss
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 ill	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 ill	cop
39	too	too	ADV	_	40 ill	advmod
40	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wife	acl:relcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 mind	mark
42	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 ill	advcl
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 baby	nmod:poss
44	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mind	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dame			midnight; night	wake property	tree rules
2	go	past	Dame				downstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	Dame	a strange eyed ugly old fellow				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	past	a strange eyed ugly old fellow		Dame			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	a strange eyed ugly old fellow not said here				to his wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location
6	is	past	his wife				ill property	tree rules
7	mind	to-infinitive	his wife not said here	Dame's baby				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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: «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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