The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 46
But she felt sure that her father was leaving her for ever, so she was very sad when the bell rang sharply for the second time, and warned them that the time had come for them to part.
Who acts: Beauty, father, bell, time · What happens: feel, leave, be, ring, warn, come · To what, where: Beauty, heaps · 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 (Beauty, father, bell, time), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 felt | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 leaving | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaving | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 leaving | aux |
| 9 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sure | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leaving | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 leaving | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sad | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 sad | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sad | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sad | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 sad | advmod |
| 18 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | conj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 rang | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bell | det |
| 21 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rang | nsubj |
| 22 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sad | advcl |
| 23 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 22 rang | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rang | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 warned | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 warned | cc |
| 30 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 warned | obj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 come | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 come | aux |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 warned | ccomp |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 come | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 part | mark |
| 40 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 come | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Beauty | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · progressive | Beauty's father | Beauty | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme for ever=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Beauty | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ring | past | the bell | time | sharply property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | warn speech: warn | past | Beauty not said here | heaps = heap | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | come | past · perfect | the time | for heaps = heap | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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