The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 34

Then he went away, after saying, “Good-by, Beauty; good-by, old man”; and though Beauty was beginning to think with great dismay of her father’s departure, she was afraid to disobey the Beast’s orders; and they went into the next room, which had shelves and cupboards all round it.

Who acts: father, Beauty, orders, next room, Beast · What happens: go away, say, begin, think, be, disobey · To what, where: orders, next room, shelves, departure · 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 (father, Beauty, orders, next room), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 saying	mark
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Beauty	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Beauty	punct
10	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Beauty	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 by	punct
12	by	by	ADP	_	10 Good	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Beauty	punct
14	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saying	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 Beauty	punct
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Beauty	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
18	by	by	ADP	_	16 good	fixed
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 good	obl
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 beginning	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 beginning	cc
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 beginning	mark
26	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 beginning	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 beginning	aux
28	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 think	mark
30	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 beginning	xcomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 dismay	case
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dismay	amod
33	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 think	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 departure	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 departure	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 father	case
38	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dismay	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 afraid	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 afraid	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 afraid	cop
42	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 disobey	mark
44	disobey	disobey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 afraid	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Beast	det
46	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 orders	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 Beast	case
48	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 disobey	obj
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 went	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 went	cc
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 went	nsubj
52	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
53	into	into	ADP	_	56 room	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 room	det
55	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 room	amod
56	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 went	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 had	punct
58	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 had	nsubj
59	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 room	acl:relcl
60	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 had	obj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 cupboards	cc
62	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 shelves	conj
63	all	all	ADV	_	65 it	advmod
64	round	round	ADP	_	65 it	case
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 had	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	father			then	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	father not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past · progressive	Beauty					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here				with great dismay of Beauty's father's departure	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Beauty				afraid property	tree rules
6	disobey	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here	the Beast's orders				tree rules
7	go	past	orders = order		the next room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
8	have	past	the next room	shelves and cupboards			round room	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelf=Patient
9	dismay			Beauty's father's departure				nom dismay «feeling transitive»: of=patient
10	depart		Beauty's father					nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent
11	order		the Beast					nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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