The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 74
With great delight she slipped the bracelet on her arm, and went on into a gallery of pictures, where she soon found a portrait of the same handsome Prince, as large as life, and so well painted that as she studied it he seemed to smile kindly at her.
Who acts: Beast, prince · What happens: slip, go on, find, paint, study, seem · To what, where: bracelet, arm, gallery, portrait, that, same handsome Prince
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, prince), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 delight | case |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 delight | amod |
| 3 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipped | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slipped | nsubj |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bracelet | det |
| 7 | bracelet | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipped | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 arm | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arm | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slipped | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 gallery | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gallery | det |
| 17 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pictures | case |
| 19 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gallery | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 found | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 found | advmod |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gallery | acl:relcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 portrait | det |
| 26 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Prince | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Prince | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Prince | amod |
| 30 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Prince | amod |
| 31 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 portrait | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 large | punct |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 large | advmod |
| 34 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 portrait | amod |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 life | case |
| 36 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 large | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 painted | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 painted | cc |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 painted | advmod |
| 40 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 painted | advmod |
| 41 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slipped | parataxis |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 painted | obj |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 studied | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 studied | nsubj |
| 45 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 painted | advcl |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 studied | obj |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 seemed | nsubj |
| 48 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 studied | ccomp |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 smile | mark |
| 50 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 seemed | xcomp |
| 51 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 50 smile | advmod |
| 52 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 her | case |
| 53 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 smile | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | Beast | the bracelet | Beast's arm | with great delight | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bracelet=Patient | ||
| 2 | go on | past | Beast not said here | a gallery of pictures | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Beast | a portrait of the same handsome Prince | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Topic | |||
| 4 | paint | participle | that | well property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Destination | ||||
| 5 | study | past | Beast | bracelet | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | seem | past | prince | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | smile | to-infinitive | prince not said here | at Beast; kindly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | portray | the same handsome Prince | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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