The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 99

The young Queen was turned of twenty, not reckoning the hundred years she had been asleep; and how to find in the yard a beast so firm was what puzzled him.

Who acts: queen, firm · What happens: turn, not reckon, be, find · To what, where: young Queen, hundred years, beast

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, firm), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Queen	amod
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux:pass
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 twenty	case
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reckoning	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 reckoning	advmod
10	reckoning	reckon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 turned	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 years	det
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reckoning	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asleep	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asleep	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 asleep	cop
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 find	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 find	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 find	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 find	mark
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 yard	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 yard	det
25	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 beast	det
27	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
28	so	so	SCONJ	_	32 puzzled	mark
29	firm	firm	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 puzzled	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 puzzled	cop
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 puzzled	nsubj
32	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 find	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 puzzled	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		the young Queen		of twenty	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme of twenty=Trajectory
2	not reckon	gerund			year		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	queen	the hundred years not said here		asleep property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive		a beast		in the yard	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Topic
5	is	past	firm			puzzle 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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