The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 50
But she soon found that she was very sleepy, and as she had nothing better to do she lay down and instantly fell asleep.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: find, be, have, lay down, fall · To what, where: nothing · 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), 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 | _ | 4 found | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 sleepy | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sleepy | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sleepy | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 sleepy | advmod |
| 9 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 lay | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 lay | aux |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 23 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 24 fell | advmod |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lay | conj |
| 25 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fell | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Beauty | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Beauty | sleepy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Beauty | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lay down | infinitive · do-support | Beauty | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | Beauty not said here | asleep, instantly property | vn occur-48.3 «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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