The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 100

He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut the Queen’s throat; and going up into her chamber, with intent to do it at once, he put himself into as great fury as he could possibly, and came into the young Queen’s room with his dagger in his hand.

Who acts: kid · What happens: take, save, cut, go up, do, put · To what, where: resolution, own life, throat, chamber, kid, great fury

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kid), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 resolution	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 resolution	det
5	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 save	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 save	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 save	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 save	aux
10	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 life	amod
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 save	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cut	mark
16	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 save	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Queen	det
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 throat	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Queen	case
20	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 going	cc
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
24	up	up	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 chamber	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 chamber	nmod:poss
27	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 intent	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 intent	case
30	intent	intent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 once	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 do	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 put	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 put	nsubj
38	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 put	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	43 fury	case
41	as	as	ADP	_	43 fury	case
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fury	amod
43	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obl
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 could	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 could	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 put	advcl
47	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	46 could	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 came	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 came	cc
50	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
51	into	into	ADP	_	56 room	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Queen	det
53	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Queen	amod
54	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 room	nmod:poss
55	’s	's	PART	_	54 Queen	case
56	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 came	obl
57	with	with	ADP	_	59 dagger	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 dagger	nmod:poss
59	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 came	obl
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 hand	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 hand	nmod:poss
62	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 dagger	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	kid	a resolution			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolution=Theme
2	save	might	kid	kid's own life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	cut	to-infinitive	kid not said here	the Queen's throat			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product
4	go up	gerund	kid not said here		queen's chamber	with intent	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	kid not said here	throat			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	put	past	kid	kid	great fury		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal
7	come	past	kid not said here		the young Queen's room	with kid's dagger in kid's hand	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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