The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 98
It was now that the poor clerk of the kitchen despaired of being able to deceive her.
What happens: be, deceive · To what, where: sauce, queen
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 despaired | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 despaired | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 despaired | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 despaired | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clerk | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clerk | amod |
| 7 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 despaired | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kitchen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kitchen | det |
| 10 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clerk | nmod |
| 11 | despaired | despair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 able | case |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 able | cop |
| 14 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 despaired | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 deceive | mark |
| 16 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 deceive | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 despaired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | sauce | now | despair property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deceive | to-infinitive | queen | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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