The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 40
And now the King and the Queen, having kissed their dear child without waking her, went out of the palace and put forth a proclamation that nobody should dare to come near it.
Who acts: King, proclamation · What happens: kiss, wake, go out, put, dare, come · To what, where: dear child, queen, King, palace, proclamation
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, proclamation), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 King | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Queen | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kissed | punct |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 kissed | aux |
| 10 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 King | acl:relcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 child | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kissed | obj |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 waking | mark |
| 15 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 kissed | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 waking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 went | conj |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 proclamation | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 proclamation | det |
| 27 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 dare | nsubj |
| 29 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 dare | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 dare | aux |
| 31 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 proclamation | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 come | mark |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 dare | xcomp |
| 34 | near | near | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 come | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | gerund · perfect | the King and the Queen not said here | king's dear child | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | wake | gerund | the King and the Queen not said here | queen | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | the King and the Queen | the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | participle | a proclamation | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Goal | |||||
| 5 | dare | should | a proclamation | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | a proclamation not said here | proclamation | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=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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