The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 51
Turning round, he saw a frightful Beast, which seemed to be very angry and said, in a terrible voice:
Who acts: merchant, frightful Beast · What happens: turn round, see, seem, be, say · To what, where: frightful Beast, terrible voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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, frightful Beast), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Turning | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Beast | det |
| 7 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Beast | amod |
| 8 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Beast | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 angry | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 angry | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 angry | advmod |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seemed | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 voice | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 voice | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 voice | det |
| 21 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 voice | amod |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | gerund | merchant not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | merchant | a frightful Beast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | a frightful Beast | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | a frightful Beast not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | a frightful Beast not said here | a terrible voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
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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