The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 34

When he reached the first court of the castle he saw before him a flight of agate steps, and went up them, and passed through several splendidly furnished rooms.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: reach, see, go up, pass, furnish · To what, where: first court, flight, steps, several furnished rooms

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), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 court	amod
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 court	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flight	det
15	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 steps	case
17	agate	agate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 steps	compound
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flight	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 went	compound:prt
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 passed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 passed	cc
26	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 saw	conj
27	through	through	ADP	_	31 rooms	case
28	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rooms	amod
29	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	30 furnished	advmod
30	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 rooms	amod
31	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 passed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	merchant	the first court of the castle				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent court=Theme
2	see	past	merchant	a flight of agate steps		before tree		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flight=Stimulus
3	go up	past	merchant not said here	steps = step				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	pass	participle	merchant not said here		several furnished rooms			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through room=Location
5	furnish	participle					splendidly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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