The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 39
But no one appeared, and even after another long sleep, from which he awoke completely refreshed, there was no sign of anybody, though a fresh meal of dainty cakes and fruit was prepared upon the little table at his elbow.
Who acts: one, silence, sign · What happens: appear, awake, refresh, be, prepare, sign · To what, where: long sleep, fresh meal, anybody
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 (one, silence, sign), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 appeared | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sleep | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sleep | cc |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 sleep | advmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 sleep | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 sleep | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sleep | amod |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 awoke | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 awoke | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 awoke | nsubj |
| 16 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sleep | conj |
| 17 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 18 refreshed | advmod |
| 18 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 awoke | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 sign | det |
| 23 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 anybody | case |
| 25 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 sign | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 meal | punct |
| 27 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 meal | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 meal | det |
| 29 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 meal | amod |
| 30 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 cakes | case |
| 32 | dainty | dainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cakes | compound |
| 33 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 meal | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fruit | cc |
| 35 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cakes | conj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 prepared | aux:pass |
| 37 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 appeared | advcl |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 table | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 table | det |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 table | amod |
| 41 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 prepared | obl |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 elbow | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 44 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 table | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | no one | after another long sleep | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | silence | another long sleep | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | refresh | participle | silence not said here | completely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no sign of anybody | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prepare | past · passive | a fresh meal of dainty cakes and fruit | upon the little table at silence's elbow | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sign | anybody | nom sign «communication 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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