The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 21

About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young Princess happened one day to divert herself in running up and down the palace; when going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of the tower, where a good old woman, alone, was spinning with her spindle.

Who acts: King, young Princess, Princess · What happens: be, happen, divert, run up, go up, come · To what, where: one, Princess, one apartment, little room

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, young Princess, 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 fifteen	advmod
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 sixteen	cc
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fifteen	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gone	obl:unmarked
6	after	after	ADV	_	5 years	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 King	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Queen	cc
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 King	conj
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 gone	cop
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 gone	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 houses	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 houses	nmod:poss
18	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 pleasure	case
20	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 houses	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 happened	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Princess	amod
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 happened	nsubj
25	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	conj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	nummod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 happened	obl:unmarked
28	to	to	PART	_	29 divert	mark
29	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 happened	xcomp
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 divert	obj
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	32 running	mark
32	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 divert	advcl
33	up	up	ADV	_	32 running	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 palace	cc
35	down	down	ADP	_	37 palace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 palace	det
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 running	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 going	punct
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 going	advmod
40	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 gone	conj
41	up	up	ADV	_	40 going	advmod
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 apartment	case
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 apartment	nummod
44	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 going	obl
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 another	case
46	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	44 apartment	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 came	punct
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 came	nsubj
49	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 going	conj
50	into	into	ADP	_	53 room	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 room	det
52	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 room	amod
53	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 came	obl
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 top	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 top	det
56	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 room	nmod
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 tower	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 tower	det
59	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 top	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 woman	punct
61	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	65 woman	advmod
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 woman	det
63	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 woman	amod
64	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 woman	amod
65	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 tower	appos
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 alone	punct
67	alone	alone	ADV	_	65 woman	advmod
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 spinning	punct
69	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 spinning	aux
70	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 came	advcl
71	with	with	ADP	_	73 spindle	case
72	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 spindle	nmod:poss
73	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 spinning	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the King and Queen		one of king's houses of pleasure		year	go property	tree rules
2	happen	past	the young Princess				day		tree rules
3	divert	to-infinitive	the young Princess not said here	Princess					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
4	run up	gerund	the young Princess not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go up	gerund	the King and Queen not said here			one apartment to another			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	come	past	Princess			a little room on the top of the tower			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
7	spin	past · progressive	Princess not said here					with Princess's spindle	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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