The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 131

The maidens had dreamed that he was coming, and were ready to go with him, but first they made a cake in which they put poison, and left it on a table where the old woman was likely to see it when she returned.

Who acts: prince, maidens, old woman, wedding · What happens: dream, come, be, go, make, put · To what, where: maidens, cake, poison, table

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, maidens, old woman, wedding), 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	2 maidens	det
2	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dreamed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dreamed	aux
4	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 coming	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 coming	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dreamed	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ready	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ready	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ready	cop
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dreamed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ready	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 made	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dreamed	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cake	det
23	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 put	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	nsubj
27	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cake	acl:relcl
28	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 left	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 left	cc
31	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 left	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 table	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 table	det
35	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 likely	obl
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 likely	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 woman	det
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 woman	amod
39	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 likely	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 likely	cop
41	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 left	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 see	mark
43	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 likely	xcomp
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 see	obj
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 returned	advmod
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 returned	nsubj
47	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 see	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dream	past · perfect · passive		the maidens			vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	come	past · progressive	prince				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past				ready property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive				with prince	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
5	make	past	maidens = maiden	a cake		first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product
6	put	past	maidens = maiden	poison	a cake		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme in which=Destination
7	leave	past	maidens = maiden not said here	Poison			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	is	past	the old woman		a table	likely property	tree rules
9	see	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	Poison			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
10	return	past	wedding				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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