The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 7
As the time drew near she divided all her little possessions between her sisters, and said good-by to everything she loved, and when the fatal day came she encouraged and cheered her father as they mounted together the horse which had brought him back.
Who acts: Beauty, fatal day, possessions · What happens: draw, divide, say, love, come, encourage · To what, where: little possessions, father, horse · 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, fatal day, possessions), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 divided | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 divided | nsubj |
| 7 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | advcl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 possessions | det:predet |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 possessions | amod |
| 11 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 divided | obj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 sisters | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 possessions | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | xcomp |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 good | punct |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 everything | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 everything | case |
| 22 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 said | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 loved | nsubj |
| 24 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 everything | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 encouraged | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 encouraged | cc |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 came | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 29 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 encouraged | advcl |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 encouraged | nsubj |
| 33 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cheered | cc |
| 35 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 encouraged | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 father | nmod:poss |
| 37 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cheered | obj |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 mounted | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 mounted | nsubj |
| 40 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 cheered | advcl |
| 41 | together | together | ADV | _ | 40 mounted | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 horse | det |
| 43 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 mounted | obj |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 brought | aux |
| 46 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 horse | acl:relcl |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 brought | obj |
| 48 | back | back | ADV | _ | 46 brought | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | time | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | divide | past | Beauty | Beauty's little possessions | between Beauty's sisters | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | by everything; good property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | love | past | Beauty | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | come | past | the fatal day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | encourage | past | Beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | cheer | past | Beauty not said here | Beauty's father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | mount | past | possessions = possession | the horse | together property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 9 | bring back | past · perfect · passive | the horse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | |||||
| 10 | possess | Beauty | between Beauty's sisters | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent between=obl |
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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