The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 16
After two years, when they were all beginning to get used to their new life, something happened to disturb their tranquillity.
Who acts: girls, something · What happens: begin, get, use, happen, disturb · To what, where: tranquillity
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 (girls, something), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 happened | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beginning | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 beginning | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beginning | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 beginning | aux |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 beginning | advmod |
| 9 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 years | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beginning | xcomp |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 used | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 disturb | mark |
| 21 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 happened | xcomp |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tranquillity | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tranquillity | tranquillity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disturb | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | girls = girl | all property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | girls = girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | use | participle | girls = girl not said here | to girls's new life | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | something | year | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | disturb | to-infinitive | something not said here | girls's tranquillity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tranquillity=Experiencer |
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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