The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 32
The King commanded that they should not disturb her, but let her sleep quietly till her hour of awaking was come.
Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: command, not disturb, let, sleep, come · To what, where: Princess, hour · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 disturb | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 disturb | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 disturb | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 disturb | advmod |
| 8 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 disturb | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 14 sleep | advmod |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 hour | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hour | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sleep | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 awaking | case |
| 20 | awaking | awaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux:pass |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hour | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the King | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not disturb | should | king | Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the King not said here | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | infinitive | Princess not said here | hour | quietly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | come | past · passive | Princess's hour not said here | of awaking | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: of awaking=Initial_Location |
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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