The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 48
They were pawing the ground in their impatience to start, and the merchant was forced to bid Beauty a hasty farewell; and as soon as he was mounted he went off at such a pace that she lost sight of him in an instant.
Who acts: heaps, merchant, Beauty · What happens: paw, start, force, bid, mount, go off · To what, where: ground, impatience, merchant, Beauty, sight, instant
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, merchant, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pawing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pawing | aux |
| 3 | pawing | paw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pawing | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 impatience | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 impatience | nmod:poss |
| 8 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pawing | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 start | mark |
| 10 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 impatience | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forced | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 merchant | det |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forced | aux:pass |
| 16 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pawing | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bid | mark |
| 18 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forced | xcomp |
| 19 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bid | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 farewell | det |
| 21 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 farewell | amod |
| 22 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bid | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 mounted | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 mounted | cc |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 soon | advmod |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 mounted | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 mounted | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 mounted | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 mounted | aux:pass |
| 30 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 went | advcl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pawing | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 went | compound:prt |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 pace | case |
| 35 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 pace | det:predet |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 pace | det |
| 37 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 lost | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 lost | nsubj |
| 40 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 went | advcl |
| 41 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lost | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 sight | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 instant | case |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 instant | det |
| 46 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lost | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pawing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paw | past · progressive | heaps = heap | the ground | heaps's impatience | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ground=Patient in impatience=Location | |||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | heaps = heap not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | the merchant | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bid | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | Beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mount | past · passive | merchant | soon property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go off | past | merchant | at such pace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at pace=Location | ||||
| 7 | lose | past | Beauty | sight of merchant | a instant | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | sight | merchant | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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