The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 69
The chief lady of honor, being as sharp set as other folks, grew very impatient, and told the Princess aloud that supper was served up.
Who acts: chief lady · What happens: be, grow, tell, serve up · To what, where: Princess, supper · 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 (chief lady), 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 lady | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 honor | case |
| 5 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lady | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 set | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 set | case |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 set | amod |
| 10 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lady | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 folks | case |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 folks | amod |
| 13 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 impatient | advmod |
| 17 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 grew | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | obj |
| 23 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 20 told | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 served | mark |
| 25 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 served | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 served | aux:pass |
| 27 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 told | ccomp |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 served | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the chief lady of honor and sharp set not said here | as sharp set; as other folks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the chief lady of honor and sharp set | impatient property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the chief lady of honor and sharp set not said here | the Princess | aloud property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | serve up | past · passive | supper | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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