The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 50

They reminded him of his promise to Beauty, and he stopped and had just gathered one to take to her when he was startled by a strange noise behind him.

Who acts: flowers, merchant, strange noise · What happens: remind, stop, gather, take, startle, promise · To what, where: merchant, one, Beauty

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 (flowers, merchant, strange noise), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reminded	nsubj
2	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reminded	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 promise	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 promise	nmod:poss
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reminded	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Beauty	case
8	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 promise	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stopped	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reminded	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gathered	cc
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gathered	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 gathered	advmod
16	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 stopped	conj
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gathered	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gathered	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	obl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 startled	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 startled	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 startled	aux:pass
25	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 take	advcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 noise	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 noise	det
28	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 noise	amod
29	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 startled	obl
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 noise	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reminded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	past	flowers = flower		merchant	of merchant's promise to Beauty	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of promise=Topic
2	stop	past	merchant				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	gather	past · perfect	merchant not said here	one			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	take	to-infinitive	merchant not said here		Beauty		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result
5	startle	past · passive	a strange noise behind path	merchant			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
6	promise		merchant			to Beauty	nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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