The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 14

The old Fairy’s turn coming next, with a head shaking more with spite than age, she said that the Princess should have her hand pierced with a spindle and die of the wound.

Who acts: turn, head, Princess, hand · What happens: come, shake, say, have, pierce · To what, where: more, hand · 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 (turn, head, Princess, hand), 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	3 Fairy	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fairy	amod
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Fairy	case
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 turn	acl
7	next	next	ADV	_	6 coming	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shaking	punct
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 shaking	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shaking	nsubj
12	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 coming	conj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 shaking	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 spite	case
15	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shaking	obl
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 age	case
17	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shaking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 have	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 spindle	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 spindle	det
31	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pierced	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 die	cc
33	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spindle	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 wound	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wound	det
36	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 die	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	the old Fairy's turn not said here			next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake	gerund	a head	more	than age	with spite	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent more=Patient with spite=Co-Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	head				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	should	the Princess	Princess's hand			tree rules
5	pierce	participle	Princess's hand not said here			with a spindle and die of the wound	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spindle=Instrument

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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