--- title: Early in the morning, before the children were awake, she rose up, a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Early in the morning, before the children were awake, she rose up, and when she saw them both sleeping so peacefully, with their round rosy cheeks, she muttered to herself: “That’ll be a dainty bite.” Who acts: children, witch, ’ll. 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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 (children, witch, ’ll), 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:pg503:35:92 # text = Early in the morning, before the children were awake, she rose up, and when she saw them both sleeping so peacefully, with their round rosy cheeks, she muttered to herself: “That’ll be a dainty bite.” 1 Early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 20 appos _ _ 22 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 xcomp _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 peacefully peacefully ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 rosy rosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 muttered mutter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 “ " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ll 'll NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 dainty dainty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the children | | | | morning | awake *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **rise up** | past | witch | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | past | witch | children *= child* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sleep** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | with children's round rosy cheeks; peacefully *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | witch | | witch | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | that ’ll | a dainty bite | | | | | tree rules | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/93/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grettel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/)