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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

nsubjnsubjnmod:possobjcasedetoblmarknsubjauxadvclpunctccmarknsubjauxparataxiscasedetoblcasedetcompoundpunctnmodpunctnsubjacl:relcliobjobjccamodconjpunctrootThatPRONhePRONlostVERBhisPRONwayNOUNinADPtheDETforestNOUNasSCONJhePRONwasAUXhuntingVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJhePRONhadAUXlainVERBinADPtheDETcottageNOUNofADPaDETcharcoalNOUN-PUNCTburnerNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONgaveVERBhimPRONcheeseNOUNandCCONJbrownADJbreadNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 lostnsubj
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 lostnsubj
3lostloseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 waynmod:poss
5waywayNOUNNumber=Sing3 lostobj
6ininADP_8 forestcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 forestdet
8forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing3 lostobl
9asasSCONJ_12 huntingmark
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 huntingnsubj
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 huntingaux
12huntinghuntVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 lostadvcl
13,,PUNCT_18 lainpunct
14andandCCONJ_18 laincc
15thatthatSCONJ_18 lainmark
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 lainnsubj
17hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 lainaux
18lainlieVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 lostparataxis
19ininADP_21 cottagecase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 cottagedet
21cottagecottageNOUNNumber=Sing18 lainobl
22ofofADP_26 burnercase
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 burnerdet
24charcoalcharcoalNOUNNumber=Sing26 burnercompound
25--PUNCT_24 charcoalpunct
26burnerburnerNOUNNumber=Sing21 cottagenmod
27,,PUNCT_29 gavepunct
28whowhoPRONPronType=Rel29 gavensubj
29gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 burneracl:relcl
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 gaveiobj
31cheesecheeseNOUNNumber=Sing29 gaveobj
32andandCCONJ_34 breadcc
33brownbrownADJDegree=Pos34 breadamod
34breadbreadNOUNNumber=Sing31 cheeseconj
35..PUNCT_3 lostpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1losepastThatPrince's waythe forestvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
2huntpast · progressivePrincevn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3liepast · perfectPrincethe cottage of a charcoal burnervn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cottage=Location
4givepasta charcoal burnercheese and brown breadPrincevn 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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