The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 4

There was a very fine christening; and the Princess had for her god-mothers all the fairies they could find in the whole kingdom (they found seven), that every one of them might give her a gift, as was the custom of fairies in those days.

Who acts: fine christening, Princess, fairies, one · What happens: be, have, find, give · To what, where: fairies, whole kingdom, seven, gift, Princess

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 (fine christening, Princess, fairies, one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 christening	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fine	advmod
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 christening	amod
6	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 mothers	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mothers	nmod:poss
14	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mothers	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 god	punct
16	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 fairies	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fairies	det
19	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mothers	nmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 find	aux
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fairies	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 kingdom	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 kingdom	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kingdom	amod
26	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obl
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 found	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	nsubj
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 kingdom	acl:relcl
30	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 found	obj
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 found	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 give	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 give	mark
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 one	nmod
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 give	aux
39	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	conj
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 give	iobj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 gift	det
42	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 custom	punct
44	as	as	ADP	_	47 custom	case
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 custom	cop
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 custom	det
47	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 fairies	case
49	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 custom	nmod
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 days	case
51	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	52 days	det
52	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 fairies	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fine christening			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the Princess				for Princess's god mothers all fairies	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find	could	fairies = fairy	all fairies not said here		the whole kingdom		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic
4	find	past	fairies = fairy	seven				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Topic
5	give	might	every one of fairies	a gift	Princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient gift=Theme
6	is	past					as the custom; of fairies in that days	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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