The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 30
Not a house was to be seen; the only shelter he could get was the hollow trunk of a great tree, and there he crouched all the night which seemed to him the longest he had ever known.
Who acts: merchant, only shelter · What happens: see, get, be, crouch, seem, know · To what, where: house, only shelter, hollow trunk, merchant
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 (merchant, only shelter), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 house | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 trunk | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shelter | det |
| 10 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shelter | amod |
| 11 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trunk | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 shelter | acl:relcl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 trunk | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trunk | det |
| 17 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trunk | amod |
| 18 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tree | amod |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trunk | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 crouched | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 crouched | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 crouched | expl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 crouched | nsubj |
| 27 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | conj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 night | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 crouched | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 seemed | nsubj |
| 32 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 crouched | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 seemed | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 longest | det |
| 36 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 seemed | xcomp |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 known | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 known | aux |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 known | advmod |
| 40 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 longest | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | a house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | could | merchant | the only shelter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shelter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the only shelter | the hollow trunk | of a great tree | tree rules | |||
| 4 | crouch | past | merchant | there | night | tree rules | |||
| 5 | seem | past | merchant | long property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | know | past · perfect · passive | merchant | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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