The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 37

After choosing a vast quantity, which she divided between her sisters--for she had made a heap of the wonderful dresses for each of them--she opened the last chest, which was full of gold.

Who acts: Beauty, last chest · What happens: choose, divide, make, open, be · To what, where: vast quantity, heap, last chest

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 (Beauty, last chest), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 choosing	mark
2	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 opened	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 quantity	det
4	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quantity	amod
5	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choosing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 divided	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 divided	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 divided	nsubj
9	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quantity	acl:relcl
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 sisters	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sisters	nmod:poss
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 divided	obl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 made	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 divided	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 heap	det
19	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 dresses	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dresses	det
22	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dresses	amod
23	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heap	nmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 each	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 dresses	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 each	nmod
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 choosing	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 opened	nsubj
30	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chest	det
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 chest	amod
33	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 opened	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 full	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 full	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 full	cop
37	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 chest	acl:relcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 gold	case
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 full	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	gerund	Beauty not said here	a vast quantity		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme
2	divide	past	Beauty	a vast quantity	between Beauty's sisters	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	make	past · perfect	Beauty	a heap of the wonderful dresses for each		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Product
4	open	past	Beauty	the last chest		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme
5	is	past	the last chest		of gold; full property	tree rules

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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