The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 57

He, however, very well knew, by the ruby faces and pimpled noses of the beefeaters, that they were only asleep; and their goblets, wherein still remained some drops of wine, showed plainly that they fell asleep in their cups.

Who acts: Scarce, beefeaters, drops, goblets · What happens: know, be, remain, show, fall · To what, where: cups · Speech: someone speaks here

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, beefeaters, drops, goblets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:665): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	7 knew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 He	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	7 knew	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 knew	advmod
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 faces	punct
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 faces	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 faces	det
11	ruby	ruby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 faces	compound
12	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knew	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 noses	cc
14	pimpled	pimpled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 noses	amod
15	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 faces	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 beefeaters	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beefeaters	det
18	beefeaters	beefeater	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 noses	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asleep	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 asleep	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asleep	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 asleep	cop
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 asleep	advmod
24	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knew	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 showed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 showed	cc
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 goblets	nmod:poss
28	goblets	goblet	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 showed	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remained	punct
30	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 remained	advmod
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 remained	advmod
32	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 goblets	acl:relcl
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 drops	det
34	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 remained	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 wine	case
36	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drops	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 showed	punct
38	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	conj
39	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	38 showed	advmod
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 fell	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 fell	nsubj
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 showed	ccomp
43	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fell	xcomp
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 cups	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 cups	nmod:poss
46	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fell	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Scarce			by the ruby faces and pimpled noses of the beefeaters; however, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	beefeaters = beefeater			asleep property	tree rules
3	remain	past	some drops of wine		still	wherein property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	show	past	beefeaters's goblets			plainly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fall	past	drops = drop	beefeaters's cups		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cup=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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