The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 40

Being naturally timid, the silence began to terrify him, and he resolved to search once more through all the rooms; but it was of no use.

Who acts: silence, meal · What happens: be, begin, terrify, resolve, search · To what, where: silence, rooms

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, meal), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 timid	cop
2	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	3 timid	advmod
3	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 silence	det
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 timid	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 terrify	mark
9	terrify	terrify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 terrify	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 resolved	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 resolved	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 resolved	nsubj
14	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 search	mark
16	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 resolved	xcomp
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 search	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 search	advmod
19	through	through	ADP	_	22 rooms	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 rooms	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rooms	det
22	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 search	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 use	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 use	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 use	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 use	cop
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 use	case
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 use	det
29	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 timid	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 timid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				naturally, timid property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the silence				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	terrify	to-infinitive	the silence not said here	silence			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	resolve	past	silence				tree rules
5	search	to-infinitive	silence not said here		all rooms	once property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through room=Location
6	is	past	meal			of no use	tree rules

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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