The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 71
So she got up and began to explore some of the many rooms of the palace.
Who acts: Beast · What happens: get up, begin, explore · To what, where: some
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 (Beast), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 began | cc |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 explore | mark |
| 8 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 explore | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rooms | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rooms | det |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rooms | amod |
| 13 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rooms | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Beast | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | Beast not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | explore | to-infinitive | Beast not said here | some | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent some=Location |
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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