The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 92

His sons and daughters, who had been very uneasy at his long absence, rushed to meet him, eager to know the result of his journey, which, seeing him mounted upon a splendid horse and wrapped in a rich mantle, they supposed to be favorable.

Who acts: sons, journey, sun · What happens: be, rush, meet, know, see, mount · To what, where: long absence, sun, result, rich mantle, journey

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 (sons, journey, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sons	nmod:poss
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 supposed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 daughters	cc
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sons	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 uneasy	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 uneasy	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 uneasy	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 uneasy	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 uneasy	advmod
10	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sons	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 absence	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 absence	nmod:poss
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 absence	amod
14	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 uneasy	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rushed	punct
16	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sons	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 meet	mark
18	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 rushed	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meet	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eager	punct
21	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sons	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 know	mark
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 eager	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 result	det
25	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 know	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 journey	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 journey	nmod:poss
28	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 result	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seeing	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 seeing	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seeing	punct
32	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 journey	acl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seeing	obj
34	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 seeing	xcomp
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 horse	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 horse	det
37	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 horse	amod
38	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mounted	obl:agent
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 wrapped	cc
40	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 mounted	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 mantle	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 mantle	det
43	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 mantle	amod
44	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wrapped	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sons	punct
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 supposed	nsubj
47	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
48	to	to	PART	_	50 favorable	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 favorable	cop
50	favorable	favorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 supposed	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 supposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	sun's sons and daughters		sun's long absence	uneasy property	tree rules
2	rush	participle					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
3	meet	to-infinitive		sun			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	know	to-infinitive	sun's sons and daughters not said here	the result of sun's journey			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer result=Stimulus
5	see	gerund	sun's journey	sun			tree rules
6	mount	participle	sun not said here				vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
7	wrap	participle	sun not said here		a rich mantle		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mantle=Destination
8	suppose	past	sun's sons and daughters				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
9	is	to-infinitive	sun's sons and daughters not said here			favorable property	tree rules
10	absent		sun				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent
11	result			sun's journey			nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
12	journey		sun				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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