The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 75
Tearing herself away from the portrait at last, she passed through into a room which contained every musical instrument under the sun, and here she amused herself for a long while in trying some of them, and singing until she was tired.
Who acts: Beast, room · What happens: tear, pass through, contain, amuse, try, sing · To what, where: Beast, last, room, musical instrument, sun, 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, room), 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 | Tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 passed | advcl |
| 2 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Tearing | obj |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Tearing | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 portrait | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 portrait | det |
| 6 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 away | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tearing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tearing | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | through | through | ADV | _ | 11 passed | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 contained | nsubj |
| 17 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 room | acl:relcl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 instrument | det |
| 19 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 instrument | amod |
| 20 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contained | obj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 sun | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contained | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 amused | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 amused | cc |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 amused | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 amused | nsubj |
| 28 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | conj |
| 29 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 amused | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 while | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 while | det |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 while | amod |
| 33 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 amused | obl |
| 34 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 35 trying | mark |
| 35 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 amused | advcl |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 trying | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 some | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 singing | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 singing | cc |
| 41 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 passed | advcl |
| 42 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 45 tired | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 tired | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 tired | cop |
| 45 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 singing | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | gerund | Beast not said here | Beast | last | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location herself=Theme | ||
| 2 | pass through | past | Beast | a room | through property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | contain | past | a room | every musical instrument | the sun | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot instrument=Theme | |||
| 4 | amuse | past | Beast | Beast | here | while | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | ||
| 5 | try | gerund | Beast not said here | some | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | gerund | Beast not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | Beast | tired property | tree rules |
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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