The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 63

But dinner does not take very long when you are all by yourself, and very soon she sat down cosily in the corner of a sofa, and began to think about the charming Prince she had seen in her dream.

Who acts: dinner, you · What happens: not take, be, sit down, begin, think, see · To what, where: corner, charming, dream

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 (dinner, you), 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	_	5 take	cc
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 take	advmod
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 yourself	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 yourself	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 yourself	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 yourself	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 yourself	case
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 long	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 soon	advmod
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 sat	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	parataxis
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
21	cosily	cosily	ADV	_	19 sat	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 corner	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 corner	det
24	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 sofa	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sofa	det
27	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 corner	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 began	cc
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 think	mark
32	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 charming	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 charming	det
35	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 think	obl
36	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 charming	appos
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 seen	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 charming	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 dream	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 dream	nmod:poss
42	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not take	present · do-support	dinner			long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you			by yourself; all property	tree rules
3	sit down	past	dinner		the corner of a sofa	cosily, soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
4	begin	past	dinner not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	dinner not said here			about the charming	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about charming=Topic
6	see	past · perfect	dinner	the charming not said here	dinner's dream		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer charming=Stimulus
7	dream		dinner				nom dream «cognition 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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