The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 10

While they were talking the night fell, and then, to their great surprise, wonderful colored lights began to shine in all directions, and splendid fireworks blazed out before them; all the forest was illuminated by them, and even felt pleasantly warm, though it had been bitterly cold before.

Who acts: possessions, night, wonderful colored lights, splendid fireworks, forest · What happens: talk, fall, begin, shine, blaze out, illuminate · To what, where: directions, forest

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (possessions, night, wonderful colored lights, splendid fireworks), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 talking	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talking	aux
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fell	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 began	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 surprise	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 surprise	nmod:poss
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 surprise	amod
15	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 surprise	punct
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lights	amod
18	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lights	amod
19	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 shine	mark
22	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 directions	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 directions	det
25	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shine	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 blazed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 blazed	cc
28	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fireworks	amod
29	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 blazed	nsubj
30	blazed	blaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 began	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 blazed	compound:prt
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 blazed	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 illuminated	punct
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 forest	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 forest	det
37	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 illuminated	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 illuminated	aux:pass
39	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fell	conj
40	by	by	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 illuminated	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 felt	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 felt	cc
44	even	even	ADV	_	45 felt	advmod
45	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
46	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	45 felt	advmod
47	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 felt	xcomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 cold	punct
49	though	though	SCONJ	_	54 cold	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 cold	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 cold	aux
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 cold	cop
53	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	54 cold	advmod
54	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 felt	conj
55	before	before	ADV	_	54 cold	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	possessions = possession					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	the night					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	wonderful colored lights			then	to possessions's great surprise	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	shine	to-infinitive	wonderful colored lights not said here		all directions			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
5	blaze out	participle	splendid fireworks			before possessions = possession		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
6	illuminate	past · passive	possessions = possession	all forest				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination
7	feel	past	the night not said here				pleasantly, warm property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
8	is	past · perfect	forest				before, bitterly, cold property	tree rules
9	surprise		possessions = possession					nom surprise «feeling 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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