The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 91

Then, after a hasty breakfast, he went to gather Beauty’s rose, and mounted his horse, which carried him off so swiftly that in an instant he had lost sight of the palace, and he was still wrapped in gloomy thoughts when it stopped before the door of the cottage.

Who acts: sun, horse, rose · What happens: go, gather, mount, carry off, lose, wrap · To what, where: rose, horse, sun, sight, instant, gloomy thoughts

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 (sun, horse, rose), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 breakfast	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 breakfast	det
5	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 breakfast	amod
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 breakfast	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 gather	mark
11	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	xcomp
12	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rose	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Beauty	case
14	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gather	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mounted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mounted	cc
17	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
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 mounted	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carried	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 carried	nsubj
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 horse	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 carried	compound:prt
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 swiftly	advmod
26	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	22 carried	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 lost	mark
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 instant	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 instant	det
30	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lost	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lost	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lost	aux
33	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 carried	advcl
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lost	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 palace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 palace	det
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sight	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 wrapped	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 wrapped	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 wrapped	nsubj:pass
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 wrapped	aux:pass
42	still	still	ADV	_	43 wrapped	advmod
43	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 mounted	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 thoughts	case
45	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 thoughts	amod
46	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 wrapped	obl
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 stopped	advmod
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 stopped	nsubj
49	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 wrapped	advcl
50	before	before	ADP	_	52 door	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 door	det
52	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 stopped	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 cottage	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 cottage	det
55	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 door	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	sun			after a hasty breakfast; then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gather	to-infinitive	sun not said here	Beauty's rose				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme
3	mount	past	sun not said here	sun's horse				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4	carry off	past	sun's horse	sun			swiftly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	lose	past · perfect	sun	sight of the palace	a instant			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
6	wrap	past · passive		sun	gloomy thoughts	still		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in thought=Destination
7	stop	past	rose			before the door of the cottage		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	sight			the palace				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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