The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 36

Immediately upon her touching them they all fell asleep, that they might not awake before their mistress and that they might be ready to wait upon her when she wanted them.

Who acts: Princess, horses · What happens: touch, fall, not awake, be, wait, want · To what, where: horses

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, horses), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 touching	advmod
2	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 touching	mark
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touching	nsubj
4	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touching	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fell	advmod
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touching	parataxis
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fell	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 awake	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 awake	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 awake	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 awake	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 awake	advmod
15	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fell	conj
16	before	before	ADP	_	18 mistress	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mistress	nmod:poss
18	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 awake	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ready	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 ready	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ready	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 ready	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 ready	cop
24	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fell	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 wait	mark
26	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ready	xcomp
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wait	obl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 wanted	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wanted	nsubj
31	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wait	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wanted	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 touching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund	Princess	horses = horse		immediately property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
2	fall	past	horses = horse			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not awake	might	horses = horse		before horses's mistress		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before mistress=Location
4	is	might	horses = horse			ready property	tree rules
5	wait	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here			upon Princess	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location
6	want	past	Princess	horses = horse			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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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