The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 43

When a hundred years were gone and passed the son of the King then reigning, and who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, being gone a-hunting on that side of the country, asked:

Who acts: hundred years · What happens: be, pass, reign, sleep, hunt, ask · To what, where: son, that, side

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 (hundred years), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 asked	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 passed	cc
8	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passed	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 reigning	advmod
15	reigning	reign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 passed	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 family	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 family	cc
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 family	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 family	cop
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 family	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 family	det
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 family	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 Princess	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
27	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 Princess	amod
28	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 that	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gone	punct
30	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 gone	cop
31	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gone	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hunting	det
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 a	punct
34	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 gone	advcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 side	case
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 side	det
37	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hunting	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 country	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 country	det
40	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 side	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 asked	punct
42	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	hundred years				gone property	tree rules
2	pass	past	hundred years not said here	the son of the King				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme son=Trajectory
3	reign	gerund	hundred years not said here			then		tree rules
4	is	past			that		of another family	tree rules
5	sleep	gerund						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	gerund	hundred years not said here				go property	tree rules
7	hunt	gerund	hundred years not said here		that side of the country			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
8	ask speech: ask	past						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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