The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 95
He took him up in his arms and carried him to his wife, that she might conceal him in her chamber along with his sister, and in the room of little Day cooked up a young kid, very tender, which the Ogress found to be wonderfully good.
Who acts: Ogress, queen, tender · What happens: take up, carry, conceal, cook up, find, be · To what, where: person, arms, Ogress, wife, chamber, young kid
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, queen, tender), 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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 arms | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 conceal | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 conceal | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 conceal | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 conceal | aux |
| 18 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 carried | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 conceal | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 chamber | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 22 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 conceal | obl |
| 23 | along | along | ADP | _ | 26 sister | case |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 sister | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 conceal | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 cooked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cooked | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 room | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 room | det |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cooked | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Day | case |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Day | amod |
| 34 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 room | nmod |
| 35 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | parataxis |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 cooked | compound:prt |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 kid | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 kid | amod |
| 39 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cooked | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 tender | punct |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 tender | advmod |
| 42 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 kid | appos |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 found | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 found | obj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Ogress | det |
| 46 | Ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 found | nsubj |
| 47 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 tender | acl:relcl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 good | mark |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 good | cop |
| 50 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 51 good | advmod |
| 51 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 found | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Ogress | person | Ogress's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 2 | carry | past | Ogress not said here | Ogress | Ogress's wife | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to wife=Destination | |||
| 3 | conceal | might | queen | Ogress | queen's chamber | along Ogress's sister | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in chamber=Location | ||
| 4 | cook up | participle | a young kid | the room of little Day | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Product | ||||
| 5 | find | past | the Ogress | tender | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | tender not said here | good, wonderfully property | tree rules |
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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