The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 163
And they were so enchanted by her beauty that they did not wake her, but let her sleep on in the little bed.
Who acts: beauty, others, you, SNOWDROP · What happens: enchant, not wake, let, sleep on · To what, where: others, SNOWDROP, little bed
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, others, you, SNOWDROP), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 enchanted | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 enchanted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 enchanted | advmod |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 let | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enchanted | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 wake | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wake | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wake | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wake | advmod |
| 13 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enchanted | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wake | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sleep | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bed | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bed | amod |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | SNOWDROP's beauty | others = other | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not wake | past · do-support | others = other | SNOWDROP | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | imperative | you not said here | SNOWDROP | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep on | infinitive | SNOWDROP not said here | the little bed | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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