The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 76

The Queen spoke several times to her son, to inform herself after what manner he did pass his time, and that in this he ought in duty to satisfy her.

Who acts: Queen, manner · What happens: speak, inform, pass, satisfy · To what, where: queen · 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 (Queen, manner), 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	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoke	obl:unmarked
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 son	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 inform	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 inform	mark
11	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	parataxis
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 inform	obj
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 pass	mark
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 pass	obj
15	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pass	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pass	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pass	aux
18	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 inform	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 time	nmod:poss
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pass	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 duty	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 duty	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 this	mark
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 duty	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 duty	nsubj
27	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 duty	aux
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 duty	case
29	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 satisfy	mark
31	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 duty	acl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 satisfy	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the Queen		time	to queen's son	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to son=Co-Agent
2	inform speech: other	to-infinitive		queen			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient
3	pass	past · do-support	manner		time		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Trajectory
4	satisfy	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	queen			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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