The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 2
They went to all the waters in the world; vows, pilgrimages, all ways were tried, and all to no purpose.
Who acts: king, vows · What happens: go, try · To what, where: vows, world, ways
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 (king, vows), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 waters | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 waters | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waters | det |
| 6 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 vows | punct |
| 11 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pilgrimages | punct |
| 13 | pilgrimages | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 vows | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tried | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 ways | det |
| 16 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tried | aux:pass |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 vows | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 all | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 all | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 tried | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 purpose | case |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 purpose | det |
| 24 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 all | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | king | vows and pilgrimages | the world | to all waters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | try | past · passive | vows and pilgrimages not said here | all ways | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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