The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 26

Now this was very difficult to do, as she was guarded by some terrible lions; but happily the Queen had heard a long time before that whoever wanted to pass these lions safely must throw to them a cake made of millet flour, sugar-candy, and crocodile’s eggs.

Who acts: this, terrible lions, Queen, that · What happens: be, do, guard, hear, want, pass · To what, where: queen, lions, cake

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, terrible lions, Queen, that), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 difficult	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 difficult	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 difficult	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 difficult	advmod
5	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 difficult	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 guarded	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 guarded	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 guarded	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 guarded	aux:pass
12	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 do	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 lions	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 lions	det
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lions	amod
16	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 guarded	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 heard	cc
19	happily	happily	ADV	_	23 heard	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Queen	det
21	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 heard	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	aux
23	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 throw	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obl:unmarked
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 wanted	mark
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 wanted	nsubj
29	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pass	mark
32	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wanted	xcomp
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 lions	det
34	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pass	obj
35	safely	safely	ADV	_	32 pass	advmod
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 throw	aux
37	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 difficult	parataxis
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 throw	obl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 cake	det
41	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 throw	obj
42	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 cake	acl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 flour	case
44	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 flour	compound
45	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 candy	punct
47	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 candy	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 sugar	punct
49	candy	candy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 flour	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 eggs	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 eggs	cc
52	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 eggs	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 crocodile	case
54	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 throw	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this			now	difficult property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	this not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	guard	past · passive	some terrible lions	queen				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
4	hear	past · perfect	the Queen			time	happily property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	want	past	that					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	pass not said to happen	to-infinitive	that not said here	this lions			safely property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lion=Trajectory
7	throw	must		a cake	lions = lion		crocodile's eggs obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cake=Theme to they=Destination
8	make	participle		a cake not said here			of millet flour and sugar candy	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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