The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 22
This good woman had never heard of the King’s proclamation against spindles.
Who acts: good woman, King · What happens: not hear, proclaim
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 (good woman, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 heard | advmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 proclamation | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 proclamation | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 King | case |
| 11 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 spindles | case |
| 13 | spindles | spindle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 proclamation | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · perfect | this good woman | of the King's proclamation against spindles | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of proclamation=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | proclaim | the King | against spindles | nom proclamation «communication transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |
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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