The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 14

The horse stopped at the foot of the flight of steps leading to the terrace, and when they had dismounted her father led her to the little room he had been in before, where they found a splendid fire burning, and the table daintily spread with a delicious supper.

Who acts: horse, steps, father, splendid fire · What happens: stop, lead, dismount, be, find, burn · To what, where: foot, horse, little room, splendid fire

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 (horse, steps, father, splendid fire), 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 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 foot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foot	det
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 flight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flight	det
9	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 steps	case
11	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flight	nmod
12	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 steps	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 terrace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 terrace	det
15	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leading	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 led	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 led	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 dismounted	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dismounted	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dismounted	aux
21	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 led	advcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 led	nsubj
24	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 led	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 room	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 room	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 room	amod
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 led	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 before	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 before	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 before	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 before	case
34	before	before	ADV	_	29 room	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 found	punct
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 found	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 found	nsubj
38	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 before	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 fire	det
40	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fire	amod
41	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 found	obj
42	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 fire	acl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 spread	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 spread	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 table	det
46	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spread	compound
47	daintily	daintily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 spread	amod
48	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 found	ccomp
49	with	with	ADP	_	52 supper	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 supper	det
51	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 supper	amod
52	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 spread	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the horse		the foot of the flight of steps		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location
2	lead	gerund	steps not said here			to the terrace	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to terrace=Patient
3	dismount	past · perfect	steps = step				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	lead	past	horse's father	horse	the little room		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to room=Destination
5	is	past · perfect	father			before property	tree rules
6	find	past	steps = step	a splendid fire			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic
7	burn	gerund	a splendid fire not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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