--- title: When it was time to retire for the night, and the others went to bed… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When it was time to retire for the night, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear: “You can lie there on the hearth, in heaven’s name; it will be shelter for you from the cold and wet.” Who acts: lover, mother, others, bear. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-wh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/) / 31 # The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 31 When it was time to retire for the night, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear: “You can lie there on the hearth, in heaven’s name; it will be shelter for you from the cold and wet.” **Who acts:** lover, mother, others, bear, heaven · **What happens:** be, retire, go, say, lie, name · **To what, where:** time, bed, bear, cold, hearth, shelter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, mother, others, bear), 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:pg503:36:31 # text = When it was time to retire for the night, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear: “You can lie there on the hearth, in heaven’s name; it will be shelter for you from the cold and wet.” 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 retire retire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hearth hearth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 42 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nmod _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ” " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | lover | time | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **retire** | to-infinitive | the mother *not said here* | | | | night | | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | the others | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother | | the bear | the cold | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bear=Recipient | | 5 | **lie** *in a quote* | can | the bear *= bear* | | | the hearth; there | | in heaven's name | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hearth=Location | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | lover | shelter | | | | for the bear *= bear* | tree rules | | 7 | **name** *in a quote* | | heaven | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/32/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/)