The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 111
No one dared to tell him, when the Ogress, all enraged to see what had happened, threw herself head foremost into the tub, and was instantly devoured by the ugly creatures she had ordered to be thrown into it for others.
Who acts: one, Ogress, ugly creatures, queen · What happens: dare, tell, enrage, see, happen, throw · To what, where: Ogress, all, queen, tub, ugly creatures · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, Ogress, ugly creatures, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ogress | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 Ogress | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ogress | det |
| 10 | Ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 enraged | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 enraged | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Ogress | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 enraged | xcomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happened | aux |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 threw | punct |
| 20 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dared | conj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 threw | obj |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 threw | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | foremost | foremost | ADV | _ | 20 threw | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 tub | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tub | det |
| 26 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 threw | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 devoured | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 devoured | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 devoured | aux:pass |
| 30 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 31 devoured | advmod |
| 31 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dared | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 creatures | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 creatures | det |
| 34 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 creatures | amod |
| 35 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 devoured | obl |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 ordered | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 ordered | aux |
| 38 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 thrown | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 thrown | aux:pass |
| 41 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 ordered | xcomp |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 thrown | obl |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 others | case |
| 45 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 thrown | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | no one | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | no one not said here | the Ogress | Ogress | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | enrage | participle · passive | the Ogress not said here | all | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the Ogress not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | throw | past | no one not said here | queen | into the tub result; head obl:unmarked; foremost property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into tub=Result | |||
| 7 | devour | past · passive | the ugly creatures | instantly property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | order | past · perfect | queen | the ugly creatures not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 9 | throw not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the ugly creatures not said here | tub | for others | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into it=Result |
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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