--- title: ‘When we lay down to sleep, she spread a red cloth over us, and cove… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘When we lay down to sleep, she spread a red cloth over us, and covered her daughters with a white one; but I changed the cloths, and when the ogress came back in the middle of the night, and looked at the cloths, she mistook her own daughters for my brothers, and killed them one by one, all but the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/151/) [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/) / 151 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 151 ‘When we lay down to sleep, she spread a red cloth over us, and covered her daughters with a white one; but I changed the cloths, and when the ogress came back in the middle of the night, and looked at the cloths, she mistook her own daughters for my brothers, and killed them one by one, all but the youngest. **Who acts:** we, ogress, I · **What happens:** lay down, sleep, spread, cover, change, come back · **To what, where:** red cloth, daughters, cloths, middle, own daughters 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 (we, ogress, I), 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:pg641:41:151 # text = ‘When we lay down to sleep, she spread a red cloth over us, and covered her daughters with a white one; but I changed the cloths, and when the ogress came back in the middle of the night, and looked at the cloths, she mistook her own daughters for my brothers, and killed them one by one, all but the youngest. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 cloths cloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 33 when when SCONJ WRB _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 ogress ogress NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 advcl _ _ 37 back back ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 47 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 cloths cloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 51 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 mistook mistake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 53 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 54 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obj _ _ 56 for for ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 61 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 62 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 obj _ _ 63 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 61 obj _ _ 64 by by ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 63 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 67 all all ADV RB _ 70 advmod _ _ 68 but but CCONJ CC _ 70 cc _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 61 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay down** | present | we | | | | | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spread** | past | ogress | a red cloth | | | | over us | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over we=Destination | | 4 | **cover** | past | ogress *not said here* | | ogress's daughters | | | with a white one | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination with one=Theme | | 5 | **change** | past | I | the cloths | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient | | 6 | **come back** | past | the ogress | | | the middle of the night | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | | 7 | **look** | past | the ogress *not said here* | | | | | at the cloths | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cloth=Theme | | 8 | **mistake** | past | ogress | ogress's own daughters | | | | for my brothers | tree rules | | 9 | **kill** | past | ogress *not said here* | daughters *= daughter* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer one=Result | 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 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/150/) - next →: [sentence 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/152/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Halfman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/)