The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 35

The pleasant warmth of the air revived him, and he felt very hungry; but there seemed to be nobody in all this vast and splendid palace whom he could ask to give him something to eat.

Who acts: pleasant warmth, merchant, vast palace · What happens: revive, feel, seem, be, ask, give · To what, where: merchant, nobody, vast palace, something

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 (pleasant warmth, merchant, vast palace), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 warmth	det
2	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warmth	amod
3	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 revived	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warmth	nmod
7	revived	revive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 revived	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 felt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 felt	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 revived	conj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 hungry	advmod
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 felt	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 seemed	advmod
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 revived	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	21 nobody	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 nobody	cop
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 seemed	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	28 palace	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 palace	det:predet
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 palace	det
25	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 palace	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 splendid	cc
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 vast	conj
28	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nobody	nmod
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 ask	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ask	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 ask	aux
32	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 palace	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 give	mark
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 ask	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 give	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 eat	mark
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 something	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 revived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	revive	past	the pleasant warmth of the air	merchant				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	feel	past	merchant				hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	seem	past				there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive		nobody		all vast palace		tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	could	merchant	all vast palace				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic
6	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	all vast palace not said here	something	merchant			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	all vast palace not said here	something not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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