The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 132

So that evening, when the Princess came once more with her sleeping-drink, he pretended to drink, but threw it away behind him, for he suspected that it was a sleeping-drink.

Who acts: Princess, folk, drink · What happens: come, pretend, drink, throw away, suspect, be · To what, where: drink, sleeping drink

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, folk, drink), 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	So	so	ADV	_	18 pretended	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pretended	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 evening	acl:relcl
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 came	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 drink	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 drink	nmod:poss
13	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drink	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sleeping	punct
15	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 more	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pretended	nsubj
18	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 drink	mark
20	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pretended	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 threw	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 threw	cc
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pretended	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	obj
25	away	away	ADV	_	23 threw	advmod
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 suspected	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 suspected	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 suspected	nsubj
31	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 threw	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 drink	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 drink	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 drink	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 drink	det
36	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drink	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 sleeping	punct
38	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 suspected	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Princess				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pretend	past	folk		evening		tree rules
3	drink	to-infinitive	folk not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	throw away	past		drink		behind folk; away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind he=Destination
5	suspect	past	folk				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	drink	a sleeping drink			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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