The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 48
Others, That all the sorcerers and witches of the country kept there their sabbath or night’s meeting.
Who acts: That, Others · What happens: sorcerer, keep · To what, where: meeting
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 (That, Others), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorcerers | punct |
| 3 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sorcerers | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sorcerers | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sorcerers | det |
| 6 | sorcerers | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Others | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 witches | cc |
| 8 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sorcerers | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 witches | nmod |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 kept | advmod |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sabbath | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sabbath | sabbath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meeting | nmod:poss |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 night | cc |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sabbath | conj |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 sabbath | case |
| 19 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sorcerer | That | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | keep | past | Others | others's sabbath or night's meeting | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=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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