The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 13

The youngest gave her for gift that she should be the most beautiful person in the world; the next, that she should have the wit of an angel; the third, that she should have a wonderful grace in everything she did; the fourth, that she should dance perfectly well; the fifth, that she should sing like a nightingale; and the sixth, that she should play all kinds of music to the utmost perfection.

Who acts: youngest, that, Princess · What happens: give, be, have, do, dance, sing · To what, where: sixth, Princess, beautiful person, world, wit, wonderful grace

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 (youngest, that, Princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 gift	case
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 person	nsubj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 person	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 person	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 person	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 person	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 beautiful	advmod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 person	amod
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gift	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 person	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 next	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 next	det
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gave	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 next	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wit	det
27	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 angel	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 angel	det
30	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wit	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 third	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 third	det
33	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 gave	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 have	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 have	aux
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 third	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 grace	det
40	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 grace	amod
41	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 everything	case
43	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	41 grace	nmod
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 did	nsubj
45	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 everything	acl:relcl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 fourth	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 fourth	det
48	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 gave	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 dance	punct
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 dance	mark
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 dance	nsubj
52	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 dance	aux
53	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 fourth	conj
54	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	55 well	advmod
55	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	53 dance	advmod
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 fifth	punct
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 fifth	det
58	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gave	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 sing	punct
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 sing	mark
61	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 sing	nsubj
62	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 sing	aux
63	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 fifth	conj
64	like	like	ADP	_	66 nightingale	case
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 nightingale	det
66	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 sing	obl
67	;	;	PUNCT	_	70 sixth	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 sixth	cc
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 sixth	det
70	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 play	punct
72	that	that	SCONJ	_	75 play	mark
73	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 play	nsubj
74	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	75 play	aux
75	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 sixth	acl:relcl
76	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	77 kinds	det
77	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 play	obj
78	of	of	ADP	_	79 music	case
79	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 kinds	nmod
80	to	to	ADP	_	83 perfection	case
81	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	83 perfection	det
82	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 perfection	amod
83	perfection	perfection	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 play	obl
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	70 sixth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the youngest	the sixth	Princess		for gift and the beautiful person	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient sixth=Theme for gift=Asset
2	is a	should	that	the beautiful person		the world		tree rules
3	have	should	Princess	the wit of a angel				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
4	have	should	Princess	a wonderful grace		everything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Patient
5	do	past	Princess					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	dance	should	Princess				well property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sing speech: express	should	Princess				like a nightingale	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
8	play	should	Princess	all kinds of music			to the utmost perfection	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=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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