The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 86
The Princess shall indeed pierce her hand with a spindle; but instead of dying, she shall only fall into a profound sleep, which shall last a hundred years; at the expiration of which a king's son shall come and awake her."
Who acts: Princess, profound sleep, son · What happens: pierce, die, fall, last, come, awake · To what, where: hand, profound sleep, Princess
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, profound sleep, son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pierce | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pierce | aux |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 pierce | advmod |
| 5 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pierce | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 spindle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 spindle | det |
| 10 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pierce | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fall | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 fall | cc |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 dying | mark |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 but | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 but | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fall | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fall | aux |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 fall | advmod |
| 20 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pierce | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sleep | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sleep | det |
| 23 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sleep | amod |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fall | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 last | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 last | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 last | aux |
| 28 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sleep | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hundred | det |
| 30 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 years | nummod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 last | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 expiration | punct |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 expiration | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 expiration | det |
| 35 | expiration | expiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fall | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 come | obl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 son | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 king | case |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 come | nsubj |
| 42 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 come | aux |
| 43 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 expiration | acl:relcl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 awake | cc |
| 45 | awake | awake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 come | conj |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 awake | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pierce | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pierce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | shall | the Princess | Princess's hand | with a spindle; indeed property | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with spindle=Instrument | |||
| 2 | die | gerund | Princess not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | fall | shall | Princess | a profound sleep | at the expiration | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at expiration=Location | |||
| 4 | last | shall | a profound sleep | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | shall | a king's son | of the expiration | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | awake | infinitive | a king's son not said here | Princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=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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