The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 44
So they did this and returned to the little room, where, to their astonishment, they found breakfast ready.
Who acts: heaps · What happens: do, return, find, astonish · To what, where: this, breakfast
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 (heaps), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 returned | cc |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 room | amod |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 astonishment | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 astonishment | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 astonishment | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 astonishment | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 16 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 room | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 20 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 found | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | heaps = heap | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | return | past | heaps = heap not said here | to the little room and heaps's astonishment result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | ||||
| 3 | find | past | heaps = heap | breakfast | ready property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Topic | |||
| 4 | astonish | heaps = heap | nom astonishment «feeling 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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