The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 58

He then crossed a court paved with marble, went up the stairs and came into the guard chamber, where guards were standing in their ranks, with their muskets upon their shoulders, and snoring as loud as they could.

Who acts: Scarce, guards · What happens: cross, pave, go up, come, stand, snore · To what, where: court, stairs, guard chamber, ranks

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, guards), 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	3 crossed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 crossed	advmod
3	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 court	det
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obj
6	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 court	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 marble	case
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crossed	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stairs	det
13	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl:unmarked
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 chamber	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chamber	det
18	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chamber	compound
19	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 standing	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 standing	advmod
22	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 standing	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 standing	aux
24	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 chamber	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 ranks	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ranks	nmod:poss
27	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 standing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 muskets	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 muskets	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 muskets	nmod:poss
31	muskets	musket	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 standing	obl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 shoulders	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 shoulders	nmod:poss
34	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 muskets	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 snoring	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 snoring	cc
37	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 loud	advmod
39	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 snoring	xcomp
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 could	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 could	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 loud	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Scarce	a court		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Patient
2	pave	participle		a court not said here			with marble	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with marble=Theme
3	go up	past		the stairs				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	come	past			the guard chamber			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location
5	stand	past · progressive	guards		guards's ranks		with guards's muskets upon guards's shoulders	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rank=Location
6	snore	gerund					loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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