The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 31
One would have taken her for a little angel, she was so very beautiful; for her swooning away had not diminished one bit of her complexion; her cheeks were carnation, and her lips were coral; indeed, her eyes were shut, but she was heard to breathe softly, which satisfied those about her that she was not dead.
Who acts: Princess, cheeks, lips, eyes · What happens: take, be, swoon away, not diminish, hear, breathe · To what, where: One, one bit, carnation, Princess, those
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 (Princess, cheeks, lips, eyes), 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 | One | one | PRON | PronType=Ind | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 taken | aux |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 angel | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 angel | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 angel | amod |
| 9 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taken | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 swooning | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 swooning | mark |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 swooning | nsubj |
| 19 | swooning | swoon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 beautiful | advcl |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 swooning | advmod |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 diminished | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 diminished | advmod |
| 23 | diminished | diminish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 swooning | advcl |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 bit | nummod |
| 25 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 diminished | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 complexion | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 complexion | nmod:poss |
| 28 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bit | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 carnation | punct |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 31 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 carnation | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 carnation | cop |
| 33 | carnation | carnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 coral | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 coral | cc |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 lips | nmod:poss |
| 37 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 coral | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 coral | cop |
| 39 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taken | conj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 shut | punct |
| 41 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 46 shut | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 shut | punct |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 44 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 shut | nsubj |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 shut | cop |
| 46 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 coral | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 heard | punct |
| 48 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 heard | cc |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 heard | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 heard | aux:pass |
| 51 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 breathe | mark |
| 53 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 heard | xcomp |
| 54 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 53 breathe | advmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 satisfied | punct |
| 56 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 satisfied | nsubj |
| 57 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 heard | conj |
| 58 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 57 satisfied | obj |
| 59 | about | about | ADP | _ | 60 her | case |
| 60 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 satisfied | obl |
| 61 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 65 dead | mark |
| 62 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 dead | nsubj |
| 63 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 65 dead | cop |
| 64 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 65 dead | advmod |
| 65 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 satisfied | advcl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would · perfect · passive | One | for a little angel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme she=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Princess | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swoon away | gerund | Princess | away property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not diminish | past · perfect | Princess not said here | one bit of Princess's complexion | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer bit=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Princess's cheeks | carnation | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Princess's lips | coral property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Princess's eyes | indeed, shut property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | hear | past · passive | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | breathe | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | softly property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | satisfy | past | those | about Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer | ||||
| 11 | not is | past | Princess | dead property | tree rules |
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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