The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 89

She was then four years old, and came up to him jumping and laughing, to take him about the neck, and ask him for some sugar-candy.

Who acts: queen, Ogress · What happens: be, come up, jump, laugh, take, ask · To what, where: Ogress

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, Ogress), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 old	advmod
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	conj
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	SCONJ	_	13 jumping	mark
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 jumping	nsubj
13	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughing	cc
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 jumping	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 came	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 neck	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 neck	det
22	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ask	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ask	cc
25	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 take	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ask	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 candy	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 candy	det
29	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 candy	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 sugar	punct
31	candy	candy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ask	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	queen		then; year	old property	tree rules
2	come up	past	queen not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump	gerund	Ogress				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	gerund	Ogress not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	to-infinitive		Ogress		about the neck	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
6	ask speech: ask	infinitive		Ogress		for some sugar candy	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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