The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 68
In the meanwhile all the palace awaked; everyone thought upon their particular business, and as all of them were not in love they were ready to die for hunger.
Who acts: palace, everyone, all · What happens: awak, think, not be, die · To what, where: meanwhile, love · 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 (palace, everyone, all), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meanwhile | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meanwhile | det |
| 3 | meanwhile | meanwhile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awaked | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 palace | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awaked | nsubj |
| 7 | awaked | awak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awaked | advcl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 business | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 business | nmod:poss |
| 13 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 business | amod |
| 14 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ready | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ready | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 ready | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 all | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ready | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 ready | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 love | case |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ready | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ready | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ready | cop |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 die | mark |
| 29 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ready | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 hunger | case |
| 31 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 die | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awak | participle | all palace | the meanwhile | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | everyone | upon dreams's particular business | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | all | love | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | all not said here | for hunger | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for hunger=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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