The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 4
Their house caught fire and was speedily burnt to the ground, with all the splendid furniture, the books, pictures, gold, silver, and precious goods it contained; and this was only the beginning of their troubles.
Who acts: house, precious goods, this, sons · What happens: catch, burnt, contain, be, trouble · To what, where: fire, beginning
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 (house, precious goods, this, sons), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 house | nmod:poss |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 burnt | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burnt | aux:pass |
| 7 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 8 burnt | advmod |
| 8 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caught | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burnt | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 furniture | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 furniture | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 furniture | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 furniture | det |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 furniture | amod |
| 17 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burnt | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 books | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 books | det |
| 20 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 furniture | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pictures | punct |
| 22 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 furniture | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gold | punct |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 furniture | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 silver | punct |
| 26 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 furniture | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 contained | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 contained | cc |
| 29 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 goods | amod |
| 30 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 32 contained | nsubj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 contained | nsubj |
| 32 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 beginning | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 beginning | cc |
| 35 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 beginning | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 beginning | cop |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 beginning | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 beginning | det |
| 39 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 troubles | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 42 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 beginning | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | sons's house | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burnt | past · passive | sons's house not said here | to the ground; with all splendid furniture and the books and pictures and gold and silver; speedily property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | contain | past | precious goods | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | the beginning | of sons's troubles | tree rules | |||
| 5 | trouble | sons = son | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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