The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 29

People came in from every quarter in great numbers; they threw water upon the Princess’s face, unlaced her, struck her on the palms of her hands, and rubbed her temples with Hungary-water; but nothing would bring her to herself.

Who acts: People, nothing · What happens: come in, throw, unlace, strike, rub, bring · To what, where: quarter, water, face, Princess, temples

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 (People, nothing), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 quarter	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 quarter	det
6	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 numbers	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 numbers	amod
9	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 quarter	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 face	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 face	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Princess	case
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 unlaced	punct
20	unlaced	unlace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 threw	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 unlaced	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 struck	punct
23	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 threw	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 struck	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 palms	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palms	det
27	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 struck	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hands	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hands	nmod:poss
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 palms	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rubbed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rubbed	cc
33	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 temples	nmod:poss
35	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rubbed	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 water	case
37	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 water	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Hungary	punct
39	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rubbed	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 bring	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 bring	cc
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	44 bring	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 bring	aux
44	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 bring	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 herself	case
47	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 bring	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	People			every quarter in great numbers		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from quarter=Initial_Location
2	throw	past	People	water		the Princess's face		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme upon face=Destination
3	unlace	past	People not said here	Princess				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	strike	past	People not said here	Princess			on the palms of Princess's hands	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on palm=Patient
5	rub	past		Princess's temples			with Hungary water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent temple=Destination with water=Theme
6	bring	would	nothing	Princess	Princess			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to herself=Destination

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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