The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 10

So nothing was left for them but to take their departure to the cottage, which stood in the midst of a dark forest, and seemed to be the most dismal place upon the face of the earth.

Who acts: cottage, friends · What happens: leave, take, stand, seem, be, depart · To what, where: nothing, departure, cottage, midst, dismal place

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, 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 (cottage, friends), 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	_	4 left	advmod
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 left	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 departure	nmod:poss
11	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 cottage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cottage	det
14	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cottage	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 midst	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 midst	det
20	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 forest	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 forest	det
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 forest	amod
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 midst	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seemed	cc
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stood	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	33 place	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 place	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 place	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 dismal	advmod
32	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 place	amod
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seemed	xcomp
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 face	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 face	det
36	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 place	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 earth	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 earth	det
39	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 face	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		nothing		for friends = friend	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for they=Recipient
2	take	to-infinitive		friends's departure	the cottage		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent departure=Theme to cottage=Destination
3	stand	past	the cottage		the midst of a dark forest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location
4	seem	past	the cottage not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive	the cottage not said here	the dismal place		upon the face of the earth	tree rules
6	depart		friends = friend				nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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