The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 102
So saying she opened a door, and found, to her delight, that it led into her own room, though she had thought it was quite the other side of the palace.
Who acts: charming, delight · What happens: say, open, find, lead, think, be · To what, where: door, delight, own room, other side · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (charming, delight), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 opened | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 delight | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 delight | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 delight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 led | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 led | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 led | nsubj |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 room | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 room | amod |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 thought | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thought | aux |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 led | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 side | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 side | cop |
| 29 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 side | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 side | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 side | amod |
| 32 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thought | acl:relcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 palace | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 palace | det |
| 35 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 side | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | charming not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open | past | charming | a door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | charming's delight | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lead | past | delight | charming's own room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into room=Destination | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past · perfect | charming | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | delight | quite other side | of the palace | tree rules | |||
| 7 | delight | charming | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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