The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 104

The days passed swiftly in different amusements, and after a while Beauty found out another strange thing in the palace, which often pleased her when she was tired of being alone.

Who acts: days, while Beauty, Beauty · What happens: pass, find out, be · To what, where: different amusements, strange thing, palace

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 (days, while Beauty, Beauty), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	3 passed	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 amusements	case
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 amusements	amod
7	amusements	amusement	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 Beauty	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Beauty	det
12	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Beauty	compound
13	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 found	compound:prt
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 thing	det
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 palace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palace	det
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pleased	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 pleased	nsubj
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 pleased	advmod
25	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 palace	acl:relcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tired	nmod:poss
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 tired	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tired	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tired	cop
30	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pleased	advcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 alone	case
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 alone	cop
33	alone	alone	ADV	_	30 tired	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the days		different amusements	swiftly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in amusement=Location
2	find out	past	a while Beauty	another strange thing	the palace		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	is	past	Beauty			tired property	tree rules
4	is	gerund				alone property	tree rules

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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