The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 55

He came into a spacious outward court, where everything he saw might have frozen the most fearless person with horror.

Who acts: Scarce · What happens: come, see, freeze · To what, where: spacious outward court, everything

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 (Scarce), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 court	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 court	det
5	spacious	spacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 court	amod
6	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 court	amod
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 frozen	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 frozen	advmod
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 frozen	nsubj:pass
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 everything	acl:relcl
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 frozen	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 frozen	aux
15	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 court	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 person	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 fearless	advmod
18	fearless	fearless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 person	amod
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 frozen	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 horror	case
21	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 person	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	Scarce		a spacious outward court	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into court=Initial_Location
2	see	past	Scarce			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	freeze	might · perfect · passive		everything		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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