The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 105

There was one room which she had not noticed particularly; it was empty, except that under each of the windows stood a very comfortable chair; and the first time she had looked out of the window it had seemed to her that a black curtain prevented her from seeing anything outside.

Who acts: one room, room, that, Beauty, first time, black curtain · What happens: be, not notice, stand, look out, have, seem · To what, where: one room, comfortable chair, window, Beauty, anything

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 (one room, room, that, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 room	nummod
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 noticed	nsubj:pass
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 noticed	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 noticed	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 noticed	advmod
9	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 room	acl:relcl
10	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	9 noticed	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 empty	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 empty	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 empty	cop
14	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 that	punct
16	except	except	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 stood	nsubj
18	under	under	ADP	_	19 each	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 that	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 windows	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 windows	det
22	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 each	nmod
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 empty	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 chair	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 comfortable	advmod
26	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chair	amod
27	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 seemed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 seemed	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 seemed	nsubj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 looked	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 looked	aux
35	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 time	acl:relcl
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 window	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 window	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 window	det
39	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looked	obl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 window	acl:relcl
42	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 her	case
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 seemed	obl
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 prevented	mark
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 curtain	det
47	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 curtain	amod
48	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 prevented	nsubj
49	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 seemed	advcl
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 prevented	obj
51	from	from	SCONJ	_	52 seeing	mark
52	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 prevented	advcl
53	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	52 seeing	obj
54	outside	outside	ADV	_	53 anything	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	one room			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not notice	past · perfect · passive		one room			particularly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	is	past	room				empty property	tree rules
4	stand	past	that	a comfortable chair				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chair=Stimulus
5	look out	past · perfect	Beauty	the window				tree rules
6	have	past	room	the window not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient
7	seem	past	the first time		Beauty			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	prevent	past	a black curtain	Beauty				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme
9	see	gerund	a black curtain not said here	anything				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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