The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 11
This lasted until they reached the avenue of orange trees, where were statues holding flaming torches, and when they got nearer to the palace they saw that it was illuminated from the roof to the ground, and music sounded softly from the courtyard.
Who acts: This, fireworks, statues, music · What happens: last, reach, be, hold, get, see · To what, where: avenue, statues, flaming torches, palace, roof, courtyard · 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 (This, fireworks, statues, music), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 lasted | nsubj |
| 2 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lasted | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 avenue | det |
| 7 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 9 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trees | amod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 avenue | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 statues | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 statues | advmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 statues | cop |
| 14 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trees | appos |
| 15 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 statues | acl |
| 16 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 torches | compound |
| 17 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 holding | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 got | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lasted | conj |
| 23 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 got | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 nearer | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 palace | acl:relcl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 illuminated | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 32 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 saw | ccomp |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 roof | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 roof | det |
| 35 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 illuminated | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 ground | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ground | det |
| 38 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 illuminated | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sounded | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 sounded | cc |
| 41 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sounded | nsubj |
| 42 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lasted | conj |
| 43 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 42 sounded | advmod |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 courtyard | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 courtyard | det |
| 46 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sounded | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | This | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | fireworks = firework | the avenue of orange trees | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent avenue=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | statues | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | statues not said here | flaming torches | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | past | fireworks = firework | near property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | see | past | fireworks = firework | the palace not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | illuminate | past · passive | avenue | the roof | to the ground | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 8 | sound | past | music | the courtyard | softly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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