--- title: One night, as he was tossing about in bed, full of cares and worry,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One night, as he was tossing about in bed, full of cares and worry, he sighed and said to his wife: “What’s to become of us? how are we to support our poor children, now that we have nothing more for ourselves?” Who acts: boy, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:35:3 # text = One night, as he was tossing about in bed, full of cares and worry, he sighed and said to his wife: “What’s to become of us? how are we to support our poor children, now that we have nothing more for ourselves?” 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 tossing toss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 cares care NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 support support VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 39 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 46 advmod _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 47 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 46 obj _ _ 48 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 47 amod _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ? ? PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **toss** | past · progressive | boy | One night *not said here* | | | | about bed | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent night=Theme about bed=Destination | | 2 | **sigh** | past | boy | | | | night | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | boy *not said here* | | boy's wife | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | | 4 | **become** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | of us | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | support *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | nothing | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/4/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grettel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/)