The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 51
And then she dreamed that she was walking by a brook bordered with trees, and lamenting her sad fate, when a young prince, handsomer than anyone she had ever seen, and with a voice that went straight to her heart, came and said to her, “Ah, Beauty! you are not so unfortunate as you suppose.
Who acts: Beauty, voice · What happens: dream, walk, border, lament, see, go · To what, where: brook, sad fate, heart, Beauty · 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, voice), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dreamed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dreamed | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dreamed | nsubj |
| 4 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 walking | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 walking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walking | aux |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dreamed | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 brook | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 brook | det |
| 11 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walking | obl |
| 12 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 brook | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bordered | obl:agent |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lamenting | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lamenting | cc |
| 17 | lamenting | lament | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dreamed | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fate | amod |
| 20 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lamenting | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 handsomer | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 handsomer | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 prince | amod |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 handsomer | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 handsomer | punct |
| 27 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 lamenting | conj |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 anyone | case |
| 29 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 handsomer | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 seen | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux |
| 32 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 seen | advmod |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 came | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 came | cc |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 voice | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 voice | det |
| 38 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 came | obl |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 went | nsubj |
| 40 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 voice | acl:relcl |
| 41 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 44 heart | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 heart | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 heart | nmod:poss |
| 44 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 went | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 voice | punct |
| 46 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamed | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 said | cc |
| 48 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 came | conj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 her | case |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 said | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 unfortunate | punct |
| 52 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 Beauty | punct |
| 53 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 55 Beauty | discourse |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Ah | punct |
| 55 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 unfortunate | nsubj |
| 56 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 55 Beauty | punct |
| 57 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 61 unfortunate | nsubj |
| 58 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 61 unfortunate | cop |
| 59 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 61 unfortunate | advmod |
| 60 | so | so | ADV | _ | 61 unfortunate | advmod |
| 61 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 came | conj |
| 62 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 64 suppose | mark |
| 63 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 64 suppose | nsubj |
| 64 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 61 unfortunate | advcl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | Beauty | then | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk | past · progressive | Beauty | by a brook | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by brook=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | border | participle | a brook not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lament | gerund | Beauty not said here | Beauty's sad fate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | Beauty | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | go | past | a voice | Beauty's heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | come | past | Beauty not said here | with a voice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | say speech: express | past | Beauty not said here | Beauty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | not is in a quote | present | Beauty | unfortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | suppose in a quote | present | Beauty | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | fate | Beauty | nom fate «event 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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