The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 90

Upon which he began to weep, the great knife fell out of his hand, and he went into the back yard, and killed a little lamb, and dressed it with such good sauce that his mistress assured him that she had never eaten anything so good in her life.

Who acts: Ogress, great knife, mistress · What happens: begin, weep, fall, go, kill, dress · To what, where: hand, little lamb, knife, Ogress, anything

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 (Ogress, great knife, mistress), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 began	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 weep	mark
6	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 knife	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knife	amod
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 hand	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 yard	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 yard	det
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yard	compound
23	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 killed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 killed	cc
26	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lamb	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lamb	amod
29	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 killed	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dressed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dressed	cc
32	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dressed	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 sauce	case
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sauce	amod
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sauce	amod
37	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dressed	obl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 assured	mark
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mistress	nmod:poss
40	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 assured	nsubj
41	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dressed	advcl
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 assured	iobj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 eaten	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 eaten	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 eaten	aux
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 eaten	advmod
47	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 assured	advcl
48	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	47 eaten	obj
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 good	advmod
50	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 anything	amod
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 life	case
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 life	nmod:poss
53	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 good	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Ogress					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	weep	to-infinitive	Ogress not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	the great knife			Ogress's hand		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out hand=Location
4	go	past	Ogress				into the back yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location
5	kill	past	Ogress not said here	a little lamb				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme
6	dress	past	Ogress not said here	knife			with such good sauce	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	assure	past	Ogress's mistress		Ogress			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	not eat	past · perfect	mistress	anything				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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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