The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 39

So they did this; but the more they put in the more room there seemed to be, and at last they put back all the jewels and dresses they had taken out, and Beauty even added as many more of the jewels as she could carry at once; and then the trunks were not too full, but they were so heavy that an elephant could not have carried them!

Who acts: trunks, more room, Beauty · What happens: do, put, seem, be, put back, take out · To what, where: this, more room, last, jewels, many more, elephant

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 (trunks, more room, Beauty), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 did	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 more	det
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 put	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 room	det
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 room	amod
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 seemed	advmod
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 room	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 be	mark
18	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 seemed	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 put	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 jewels	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 jewels	det
28	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 taken	nsubj:pass
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dresses	cc
30	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 jewels	conj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 taken	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 taken	aux
33	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 put	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 taken	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 added	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 added	cc
37	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 added	nsubj
38	even	even	ADV	_	39 added	advmod
39	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 many	advmod
41	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 more	amod
42	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 added	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 jewels	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 jewels	det
45	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 more	obl
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 carry	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 carry	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 carry	aux
49	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 added	advcl
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 once	case
51	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	49 carry	obl
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 full	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 full	cc
54	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 full	advmod
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 trunks	det
56	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 full	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 full	cop
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 full	advmod
59	too	too	ADV	_	60 full	advmod
60	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 heavy	punct
62	but	but	CCONJ	_	66 heavy	cc
63	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 heavy	nsubj
64	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 heavy	cop
65	so	so	ADV	_	66 heavy	advmod
66	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	conj
67	that	that	SCONJ	_	73 carried	mark
68	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 elephant	det
69	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 carried	nsubj:pass
70	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	73 carried	aux
71	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	73 carried	advmod
72	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	73 carried	aux
73	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 heavy	advcl
74	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 carried	obj
75	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	trunks = trunk	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	put	past	trunks = trunk		the more room			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination
3	seem	past	the more room not said here		there			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	be	to-infinitive	the more room not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	put back	past	trunks = trunk		last			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at last=Destination
6	take out	past · perfect · passive		all jewels and dresses				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	add speech: assert	past	Beauty	many more				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
8	carry	could	Beauty					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	not is	past	the trunks			then	full property	tree rules
10	is	past	trunks = trunk				heavy property	tree rules
11	not carry	could · perfect · passive		a elephant				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Value

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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