--- title: The Princess shall indeed pierce her hand with a spindle; but, inste… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess shall indeed pierce her hand with a spindle; but, instead of dying, she shall only fall into a profound sleep, which shall last a hundred years, at the expiration of which a king’s son shall come and awake her.” Who acts: Princess, profound sleep, son. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, profound sleep, son), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:10:19 # text = The Princess shall indeed pierce her hand with a spindle; but, instead of dying, she shall only fall into a profound sleep, which shall last a hundred years, at the expiration of which a king’s son shall come and awake her.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 pierce pierce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 spindle spindle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 16 mark _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 profound profound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 expiration expiration NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 obl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’s 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 awake awake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ _ 47 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pierce** | shall | the Princess | Princess's hand | | | | with a spindle; indeed *property* | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with spindle=Instrument | | 2 | **die** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **fall** | shall | Princess | | | a profound sleep | | at the expiration | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at expiration=Location | | 4 | **last** | shall | a profound sleep | | | | year | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | shall | a king's son | | | | | of the expiration | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of which=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **awake** | infinitive | a king's son *not said here* | Princess | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/20/) - ↑ back to [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/)