The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 47

In spite of being so cold and weary when he reached the castle, he had taken his horse to the stable and fed it.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: be, reach, take, feed · To what, where: castle, horse, spite

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 (merchant), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taken	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 cold	case
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cold	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spite	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 weary	cc
8	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cold	conj
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 reached	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weary	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taken	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taken	aux
17	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 horse	nmod:poss
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taken	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 stable	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stable	det
22	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taken	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fed	cc
24	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taken	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fed	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				cold property	tree rules
2	be						tree rules
3	reach	past	merchant	the castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
4	take	past · perfect	merchant	merchant's horse	spite	to the stable	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to stable=Destination
5	feed	past	merchant not said here	horse			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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