The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 36
Deep silence reigned everywhere, and at last, tired of roaming through empty rooms and galleries, he stopped in a room smaller than the rest, where a clear fire was burning and a couch was drawn up closely to it.
Who acts: silence, clear fire · What happens: reign, roam, stop, burn, draw up · To what, where: Deep silence, empty rooms, room, couch, fire
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 (silence, clear fire), 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 | Deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 silence | amod |
| 2 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 silence | acl |
| 4 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 reigned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tired | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tired | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 last | punct |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 roaming | mark |
| 12 | roaming | roam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tired | advcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 rooms | case |
| 14 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rooms | amod |
| 15 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 roaming | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 galleries | cc |
| 17 | galleries | gallery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rooms | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stopped | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stopped | nsubj |
| 20 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tired | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 room | det |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stopped | obl |
| 24 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 stopped | xcomp |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 rest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rest | det |
| 27 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 smaller | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 burning | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 burning | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 fire | det |
| 31 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 fire | amod |
| 32 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 burning | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 burning | aux |
| 34 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 rest | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 drawn | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 couch | det |
| 37 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 drawn | aux:pass |
| 39 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 stopped | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 drawn | compound:prt |
| 41 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 39 drawn | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 drawn | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | participle | Deep silence not said here | everywhere property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roam | gerund | empty rooms and galleries | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | silence | a room | small property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | |||
| 4 | burn | past · progressive | a clear fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | draw up | past · passive | a couch | fire | closely property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to it=Destination |
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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