The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 12
In the meanwhile all the fairies began to give their gifts to the Princess.
Who acts: fairies · What happens: begin, give, gift · To what, where: meanwhile, gifts, Princess
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 (fairies), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meanwhile | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meanwhile | det |
| 3 | meanwhile | meanwhile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 fairies | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairies | det |
| 6 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | all fairies | the meanwhile | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | all fairies not said here | fairies's gifts | the Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to princess=Recipient | |||
| 3 | gift | fairies = fairy | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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