The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 36

There were splendid dresses fit for a queen, with all the ornaments that were to be worn with them; and when Beauty opened the cupboards she was quite dazzled by the gorgeous jewels that lay in heaps upon every shelf.

Who acts: splendid dresses, Beauty, gorgeous jewels · What happens: be, wear, open, dazzle, lay · To what, where: cupboards, Beauty, heaps

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 (splendid dresses, Beauty, gorgeous jewels), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 fit	expl
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	cop
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dresses	amod
4	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	nsubj
5	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 queen	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ornaments	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 ornaments	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 ornaments	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ornaments	det
13	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 were	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ornaments	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 worn	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 worn	aux:pass
18	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 were	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 worn	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 dazzled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dazzled	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 opened	advmod
24	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 opened	nsubj
25	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dazzled	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cupboards	det
27	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 opened	obj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dazzled	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dazzled	aux:pass
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 dazzled	advmod
31	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fit	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 jewels	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 jewels	det
34	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 jewels	amod
35	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 dazzled	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 lay	nsubj
37	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 jewels	acl:relcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 heaps	case
39	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lay	obl
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 shelf	case
41	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	42 shelf	det
42	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	splendid dresses		there	for a queen; with all ornaments; fit property	tree rules
2	wear	to-infinitive · passive	splendid dresses not said here			with dresses = dress	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»
3	open	past	Beauty	the cupboards			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=Theme
4	dazzle	past · passive	the gorgeous jewels	Beauty			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
5	lay	present	the gorgeous jewels		heaps	upon every shelf	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heap=Destination

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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