The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 74
That he lost his way in the forest as he was hunting, and that he had lain in the cottage of a charcoal-burner, who gave him cheese and brown bread.
Who acts: That, Prince, charcoal burner · What happens: lose, hunt, lie, give · To what, where: way, forest, cottage, cheese, Prince
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 (That, Prince, charcoal burner), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 hunting | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hunting | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunting | aux |
| 12 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lost | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lain | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lain | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 lain | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lain | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lain | aux |
| 18 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cottage | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cottage | det |
| 21 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lain | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 burner | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 burner | det |
| 24 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burner | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 charcoal | punct |
| 26 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cottage | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 burner | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | iobj |
| 31 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 bread | cc |
| 33 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bread | amod |
| 34 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cheese | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | That | Prince's way | the forest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | hunt | past · progressive | Prince | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie | past · perfect | Prince | the cottage of a charcoal burner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cottage=Location | ||||
| 4 | give | past | a charcoal burner | cheese and brown bread | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cheese=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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