The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 103

Immediately upon her touching them, they all fell asleep, that they might not awake before their mistress, and that they might be ready to wait upon her when she wanted them.

Who acts: Princess, horses · What happens: touch, fall, not awake, be, wait, want · To what, where: horses

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, horses), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 touching	advmod
2	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 touching	mark
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touching	nsubj
4	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touching	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 fell	advmod
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touching	parataxis
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fell	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 awake	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 awake	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 awake	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 awake	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 awake	advmod
16	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fell	conj
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 mistress	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mistress	nmod:poss
19	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 awake	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ready	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ready	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 ready	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ready	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 ready	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 ready	cop
26	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fell	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 wait	mark
28	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ready	xcomp
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wait	obl
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 wanted	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wanted	nsubj
33	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wait	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wanted	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 touching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund	Princess	horses = horse		immediately property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
2	fall	past	horses = horse			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not awake	might	horses = horse		before horses's mistress		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before mistress=Location
4	is	might	horses = horse			ready property	tree rules
5	wait	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here			upon Princess	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location
6	want	past	Princess	horses = horse			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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