The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 8

But as they were all sitting down at table they saw come into the hall a very old fairy, whom they had not invited, because it was above fifty years since she had been out of a certain tower, and she was believed to be either dead or enchanted.

Who acts: fairies, you, hall, company · What happens: sit down, see, come, not invite, be, believe · To what, where: table, old fairy, hall, fifty years, certain tower, company

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 (fairies, you, hall, company), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sitting	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sitting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 sitting	advmod
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 come	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sitting	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 table	case
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 table	acl:relcl
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hall	det
15	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fairy	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 old	advmod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fairy	amod
19	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 invited	punct
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 invited	nsubj:pass
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 invited	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 invited	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 invited	advmod
25	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fairy	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 years	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 years	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 years	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 years	cop
30	above	above	ADV	_	32 years	advmod
31	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl
33	since	since	SCONJ	_	41 tower	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 tower	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 tower	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 tower	cop
37	out	out	ADP	_	41 tower	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 tower	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 tower	det
40	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tower	amod
41	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 years	acl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 believed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 believed	cc
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 believed	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 believed	aux:pass
46	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 come	advcl
47	to	to	PART	_	50 dead	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 dead	cop
49	either	either	CCONJ	_	50 dead	cc:preconj
50	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 believed	xcomp
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 enchanted	cc
52	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 dead	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past · progressive	fairies = fairy		table	all property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	see	past	fairies = fairy	table not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus
3	come	imperative	you not said here	a old fairy	the hall		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
4	not invite	past · perfect · passive		a old fairy			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
5	is a	past	hall	fifty years		above property	tree rules
6	is	past · perfect	company	fifty years not said here	a certain tower		tree rules
7	believe	past · passive		company			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
8	is	to-infinitive				dead property	tree rules
9	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/8/