The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 32
At length he made out some sort of track, and though at the beginning it was so rough and slippery that he fell down more than once, it presently became easier, and led him into an avenue of trees which ended in a splendid castle.
Who acts: merchant, sort, avenue · What happens: make out, be, fall down, become, lead, end · To what, where: sort, length, merchant, avenue, splendid castle, track
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, sort, avenue), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 sort | det |
| 7 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 track | case |
| 9 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sort | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rough | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rough | cc |
| 12 | though | though | ADV | _ | 19 rough | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 beginning | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beginning | det |
| 15 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 though | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rough | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rough | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 rough | advmod |
| 19 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 slippery | cc |
| 21 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rough | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 fell | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 slippery | advcl |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 fell | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 fell | advmod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 became | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 became | nsubj |
| 31 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 32 became | advmod |
| 32 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 33 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 became | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 led | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 led | cc |
| 36 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 led | obj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 avenue | case |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 avenue | det |
| 40 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 led | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 trees | case |
| 42 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 avenue | nmod |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 ended | nsubj |
| 44 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 avenue | acl:relcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 castle | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 castle | det |
| 47 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 castle | amod |
| 48 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ended | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make out | past | merchant | some sort of track | length | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | sort | rough, though property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | sort not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | fall down | past | merchant | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | past | sort | easy, presently property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | lead | past | merchant not said here | merchant | a avenue of trees | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into avenue=Destination | |||
| 7 | end | past | a avenue of trees | a splendid castle | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | sort | track | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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