The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 37

Thinking that this must be prepared for someone who was expected, he sat down to wait till he should come, and very soon fell into a sweet sleep.

Who acts: silence · What happens: think, prepare, expect, sit down, wait, come · To what, where: this, sweet sleep

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), 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	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sat	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 prepared	mark
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 prepared	nsubj:pass
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 prepared	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 prepared	aux:pass
6	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Thinking	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 someone	case
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 prepared	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 expected	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 expected	aux:pass
11	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 someone	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thinking	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 wait	mark
17	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sat	advcl
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wait	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fell	cc
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 soon	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 fell	advmod
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 sleep	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sleep	det
29	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sleep	amod
30	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	silence not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	prepare	must · passive		this	for someone	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for someone=Beneficiary
3	expect	past · passive				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	sit down	past	silence			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wait	to-infinitive	silence not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	should	silence			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fall	past	silence not said here		into a sweet sleep result; soon property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result

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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