The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 49

The common opinion was: That an ogre lived there, and that he carried thither all the little children he could catch, that he might eat them up at his leisure, without anybody being able to follow him, as having himself only the power to pass through the wood.

Who acts: common opinion, ogre, anybody · What happens: be, live, carry, catch, eat up, follow · To what, where: little children, children, leisure, ogre, wood

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 (common opinion, ogre, anybody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 opinion	det
2	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opinion	amod
3	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
6	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 ogre	det
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ogre	det
8	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 was	parataxis
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lived	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carried	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 carried	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	nsubj
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	conj
16	thither	thither	ADV	_	15 carried	advmod
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 children	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 children	amod
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carried	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 catch	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 catch	aux
23	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 children	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eat	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 eat	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 carried	parataxis
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 eat	compound:prt
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 leisure	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 leisure	nmod:poss
33	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 able	punct
35	without	without	SCONJ	_	38 able	mark
36	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 able	nsubj
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 able	cop
38	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eat	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 follow	mark
40	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	xcomp
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 follow	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 having	punct
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 having	mark
44	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 follow	advcl
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 having	obj
46	only	only	ADV	_	48 power	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 power	det
48	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 having	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 pass	mark
50	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 power	acl
51	through	through	ADP	_	53 wood	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 wood	det
53	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 pass	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the common opinion				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	that ogre		there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry	past	ogre	all little children		thither property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	catch	could	ogre	all little children not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
5	eat up	might	ogre	children = child	ogre's leisure		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	is	gerund	anybody			able property	tree rules
7	follow	to-infinitive	anybody not said here	ogre			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	have	gerund	anybody not said here	ogre			tree rules
9	pass	to-infinitive	anybody not said here		the wood		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=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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