The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 17
But when the Beast really appeared, though she trembled at the sight of him, she made a great effort to hide her terror, and saluted him respectfully.
Who acts: Beast · What happens: appear, tremble, make, hide, salute, sight · To what, where: sight, great effort, terror, noise
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 (Beast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:1217): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Beast | det |
| 4 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 appeared | advmod |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeared | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 trembled | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 trembled | nsubj |
| 10 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sight | det |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trembled | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sight | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trembled | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 effort | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 effort | amod |
| 21 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hide | mark |
| 23 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 effort | acl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 terror | nmod:poss |
| 25 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hide | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saluted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saluted | cc |
| 28 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saluted | obj |
| 30 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 28 saluted | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the Beast | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tremble | past | Beast | the sight of noise | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Beast | a great effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product | ||||
| 4 | hide | to-infinitive | Beast not said here | Beast's terror | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent terror=Patient | ||||
| 5 | salute | past | Beast not said here | terror | respectfully property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 6 | sight | noise | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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