The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 83
He was obliged to continue his expedition all the summer, and as soon as he departed the Queen-mother sent her daughter-in-law to a country house among the woods, that she might with the more ease gratify her horrible longing.
Who acts: Prince, Queen mother, queen · What happens: oblige, continue, depart, send, gratify, long · To what, where: Prince, expedition, daughter, country house, horrible longing
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 (Prince, Queen mother, queen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 continue | mark |
| 5 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obliged | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 expedition | nmod:poss |
| 7 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continue | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 summer | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 summer | det |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continue | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sent | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 sent | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 departed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 departed | nsubj |
| 17 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 soon | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mother | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mother | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Queen | punct |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | nsubj |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | parataxis |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 law | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 law | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 in | punct |
| 28 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 house | compound |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 33 | among | among | ADP | _ | 35 woods | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 woods | det |
| 35 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sent | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 gratify | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 gratify | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 gratify | nsubj |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 gratify | aux |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 ease | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ease | det |
| 42 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 ease | amod |
| 43 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gratify | obl |
| 44 | gratify | gratify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sent | conj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 longing | nmod:poss |
| 46 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 longing | amod |
| 47 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gratify | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Prince | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | continue | to-infinitive | Prince's expedition | summer | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent expedition=Theme | ||||
| 3 | depart | past | Prince | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send | past | the Queen mother | queen's daughter and law | a country house | among the woods; soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to house=Destination | ||
| 5 | gratify | might | queen | queen's horrible longing | with the more ease | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus longing=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | long | queen | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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