The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 99
The King commanded that they should not disturb her, but let her sleep quietly till her hour of awakening was come.
Who acts: King, Princess, hour · What happens: command, not disturb, let, sleep, awaken, come · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, Princess, hour), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 disturb | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 disturb | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 disturb | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 disturb | advmod |
| 8 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 disturb | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 14 sleep | advmod |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 hour | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hour | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sleep | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 awakening | mark |
| 20 | awakening | awaken | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 hour | acl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux:pass |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 awakening | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the King | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not disturb | should | King | Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the King not said here | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | infinitive | Princess not said here | hour | quietly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | awaken | gerund | Princess's hour not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | past · passive | Princess's hour not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» |
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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