The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 95
But this excited their curiosity so greatly that presently he told them his adventures from beginning to end, and then they were all very unhappy.
Who acts: curiosity, daughters · What happens: tell, be, adventure · To what, where: adventures, daughters, beginning · 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 (curiosity, daughters), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 excited | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 excited | nsubj |
| 3 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 5 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 excited | nsubj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 greatly | advmod |
| 7 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 excited | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 told | mark |
| 9 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 11 told | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 greatly | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 14 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 beginning | case |
| 16 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 adventures | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 unhappy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 unhappy | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 unhappy | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 unhappy | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 unhappy | cop |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 unhappy | advmod |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 unhappy | advmod |
| 26 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 told | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | curiosity | curiosity's adventures | daughters = daughter | from beginning; to end | presently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient adventure=Topic | |
| 2 | is | past | daughters = daughter | then | all, unhappy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | adventure | curiosity | from beginning | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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