The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 110

They were brought out accordingly, and the executioners were just going to throw them into the tub, when the King (who was not so soon expected) entered the court on horseback (for he came post) and asked, with the utmost astonishment, what was the meaning of that horrible spectacle.

Who acts: executioners, King, Ogress, utmost astonishment · What happens: bring out, go, throw, not expect, enter, come · To what, where: children, tub, King, court, horseback, meaning

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 (executioners, King, Ogress, utmost astonishment), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	aux:pass
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
5	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 going	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 executioners	det
9	executioners	executioner	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 going	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 brought	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 throw	mark
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 throw	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 tub	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tub	det
18	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 entered	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 entered	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 entered	nsubj
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 expected	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 expected	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 expected	aux:pass
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 expected	advmod
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 expected	advmod
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 expected	advmod
29	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 King	acl:relcl
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 expected	punct
31	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 court	det
33	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 entered	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 horseback	case
35	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 entered	obl
36	(	(	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 came	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 entered	conj
40	post	post	ADV	_	39 came	advmod
41	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 asked	cc
43	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 entered	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 astonishment	punct
45	with	with	ADP	_	48 astonishment	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 astonishment	det
47	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 astonishment	amod
48	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 asked	ccomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 meaning	punct
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 meaning	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 meaning	cop
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 meaning	det
53	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 astonishment	appos
54	of	of	ADP	_	57 spectacle	case
55	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 spectacle	det
56	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 spectacle	amod
57	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 meaning	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring out	past · passive		children = child		accordingly, out property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	go	past · progressive	the executioners				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw	to-infinitive	the executioners not said here	children = child		into the tub result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into tub=Result
4	not expect	past · passive		the King		soon property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	enter	past	the King	the court	horseback		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Destination
6	come	past	Ogress			post property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	past	the King not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	the utmost astonishment	the meaning		of that horrible spectacle	tree rules

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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