The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 20

The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old Fairy, caused immediately proclamation to be made, whereby everybody was forbidden, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have so much as any spindle in their houses.

Who acts: King · What happens: avoid, foretell, cause, make, forbid, spin · To what, where: misfortune, proclamation, everybody, pain, much, death

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), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 caused	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 avoid	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 avoid	mark
5	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 King	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 misfortune	det
7	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avoid	obj
8	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 misfortune	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 Fairy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fairy	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Fairy	amod
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foretold	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
14	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	16 proclamation	advmod
16	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caused	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 made	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	aux:pass
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 proclamation	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forbidden	punct
21	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	24 forbidden	advmod
22	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 forbidden	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 forbidden	aux:pass
24	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 made	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pain	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 pain	case
27	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forbidden	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pain	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spin	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 spin	mark
32	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 forbidden	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 distaff	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 distaff	det
35	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spin	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 spindle	cc
37	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 distaff	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 have	cc
40	to	to	PART	_	41 have	mark
41	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 spin	conj
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 much	advmod
43	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 have	obj
44	as	as	ADP	_	46 spindle	case
45	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	46 spindle	det
46	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 much	nmod
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 houses	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 houses	nmod:poss
49	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 spindle	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive		the misfortune			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent misfortune=Location
2	foretell	participle		the misfortune not said here		by the old Fairy	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	cause	past	the King	proclamation			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition proclamation=Patient
4	make	to-infinitive · passive	the King not said here	proclamation not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
5	forbid	past · passive		everybody	pain of death	whereby property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	spin	to-infinitive				with a distaff and spindle	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	have	to-infinitive		much		as any spindle in king's houses	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
8	pain			death			nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient

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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