The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 19

The Princess shall indeed pierce her hand with a spindle; but, instead of dying, she shall only fall into a profound sleep, which shall last a hundred years, at the expiration of which a king’s son shall come and awake her.”

Who acts: Princess, profound sleep, son · What happens: pierce, die, fall, last, come, awake · To what, where: hand, profound sleep, 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 (Princess, profound sleep, son), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pierce	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pierce	aux
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 pierce	advmod
5	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pierce	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 spindle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spindle	det
10	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pierce	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 dying	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 dying	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dying	punct
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 dying	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pierce	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fall	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fall	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fall	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 fall	advmod
21	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pierce	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 sleep	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sleep	det
24	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sleep	amod
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fall	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 last	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 last	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 last	aux
29	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sleep	acl:relcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hundred	det
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 last	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 expiration	punct
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 expiration	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 expiration	det
36	expiration	expiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fall	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 come	obl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 king	det
40	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 son	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 king	case
42	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	nsubj
43	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
44	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 expiration	acl:relcl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 awake	cc
46	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 come	conj
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 awake	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pierce	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 pierce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pierce	shall	the Princess	Princess's hand			with a spindle; indeed property	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with spindle=Instrument
2	die	gerund	the Princess not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	fall	shall	Princess		a profound sleep		at the expiration	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at expiration=Location
4	last	shall	a profound sleep			year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	come	shall	a king's son				of the expiration	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of which=Initial_Location
6	awake	infinitive	a king's son not said here	Princess				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=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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