The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 49
Then Beauty began to cry, and wandered sadly back to her own room.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: begin, cry, wander · To what, where: own room
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cry | mark |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wandered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wandered | cc |
| 8 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 9 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 10 back | advmod |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 wandered | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 room | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 room | amod |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wandered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Beauty | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wander | past | Beauty not said here | Beauty's own room | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination |
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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