The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 50

There was immediately a profound silence, they left off dancing, and the violins ceased to play, so attentive was everyone to contemplate the singular beauties of the unknown new-comer.

Who acts: profound silence, Y, violins · What happens: be, leave off, cease, play, contemplate · To what, where: dancing, everyone, singular beauties

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (profound silence, Y, violins), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	advcl
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 silence	det
5	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 silence	amod
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 left	compound:prt
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ceased	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ceased	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 violins	det
15	violins	violin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ceased	nsubj
16	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 play	mark
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ceased	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 attentive	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 attentive	advmod
21	attentive	attentive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 everyone	amod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 everyone	cop
23	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 play	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 contemplate	mark
25	contemplate	contemplate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 play	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beauties	det
27	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beauties	amod
28	beauties	beauty	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 contemplate	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 comer	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 comer	det
31	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 comer	amod
32	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 comer	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 new	punct
34	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beauties	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a profound silence		there	immediately property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave off	past	Y	dancing			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Theme
3	cease	past	the violins				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	play	to-infinitive	the violins not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		everyone			tree rules
6	contemplate	to-infinitive	the violins not said here	the singular beauties of the unknown new comer			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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