The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 107
After that she tried the other seven windows in turn, and there was some new and surprising entertainment to be seen from each of them, so that Beauty never could feel lonely any more.
Who acts: Beauty, new entertainment · What happens: try, be, see, not feel · To what, where: other seven windows, turn, each
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 (Beauty, new entertainment), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tried | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 windows | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 windows | amod |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 windows | nummod |
| 8 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tried | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 turn | case |
| 10 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 windows | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | conj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 entertainment | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 entertainment | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 surprising | cc |
| 18 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 new | conj |
| 19 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 entertainment | acl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 each | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 seen | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 each | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 feel | punct |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 feel | mark |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 so | fixed |
| 30 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 feel | nsubj |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 feel | advmod |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 feel | aux |
| 33 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seen | conj |
| 34 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 feel | xcomp |
| 35 | any | any | ADV | _ | 36 more | advmod |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 feel | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Beauty | the other seven windows | turn | after that | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | be | past | some new entertainment | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | some new entertainment not said here | each | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | not feel | could | Beauty | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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