--- title: Unnoticed by anyone, the ogress crept into a curtain, changing herse… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Unnoticed by anyone, the ogress crept into a curtain, changing herself into a scorpion, and when the brother was going to get into bed, she stung him behind the ear, so that he fell dead where he stood. Who acts: ogress, brother. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/133/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of Halfman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/) / 133 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 133 Unnoticed by anyone, the ogress crept into a curtain, changing herself into a scorpion, and when the brother was going to get into bed, she stung him behind the ear, so that he fell dead where he stood. **Who acts:** ogress, brother · **What happens:** unnotic, creep, change, go, get, sting · **To what, where:** curtain, ogress, bed, brother, ear This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, brother), 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:pg641:41:133 # text = Unnoticed by anyone, the ogress crept into a curtain, changing herself into a scorpion, and when the brother was going to get into bed, she stung him behind the ear, so that he fell dead where he stood. 1 Unnoticed unnotic VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ogress ogress NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 curtain curtain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 13 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 scorpion scorpion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stung sting VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 behind behind ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 39 mark _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 40 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 43 advmod _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **unnotic** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **creep** | past | the ogress | | | a curtain | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into curtain=Destination | | 3 | **change** | gerund | the ogress *not said here* | ogress | | | | into a scorpion *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into scorpion=Result | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | the brother | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | the brother *not said here* | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination | | 6 | **sting** | past | ogress | brother | | the ear | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 7 | **fall** | past | brother | | | | | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **stand** | past | brother | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/134/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Halfman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/)