The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 90

The merchant was only too glad when the Beast went away, and though he could not sleep for sadness, he lay down until the sun rose.

Who acts: merchant, Beast, sun · What happens: be, go away, not sleep, lie down, rise

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, Beast, sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 went	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Beast	det
9	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	ccomp
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lay	cc
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 sleep	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sleep	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sleep	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sleep	advmod
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 lay	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 sadness	case
20	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sleep	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sleep	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lay	nsubj
23	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 lay	advmod
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 rose	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun	det
27	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rose	nsubj
28	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lay	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the merchant	glad property	tree rules
2	go away	past	the Beast	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not sleep	could	merchant	for sadness	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lie down	past	merchant	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rise	past	the sun		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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