The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 104
For she thought them dead ever since they had been taken away without her knowledge.
Who acts: queen · What happens: think, take away · To what, where: orders
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 (queen), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 thought | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 dead | advmod |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 taken | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 taken | advmod |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 knowledge | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | queen | orders = order | dead property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | take away | past · perfect · passive | orders = order | without queen's knowledge; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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