The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 76

The next room was a library, and she saw everything she had ever wanted to read, as well as everything she had read, and it seemed to her that a whole lifetime would not be enough to even read the names of the books, there were so many.

Who acts: next room, Beast, it, whole lifetime, many · What happens: be, see, want, read, seem, not be · To what, where: library, everything, Beast, names, books

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 (next room, Beast, it, whole lifetime), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 room	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 room	amod
3	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 library	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 library	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 library	det
6	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 library	acl:relcl
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 saw	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wanted	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wanted	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 wanted	advmod
15	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 everything	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 read	mark
17	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 everything	punct
19	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	22 everything	cc
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 as	fixed
21	as	as	ADP	_	19 as	fixed
22	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 everything	conj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 read	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 read	aux
25	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 everything	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seemed	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seemed	nsubj
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seemed	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 enough	mark
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 lifetime	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lifetime	amod
35	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 enough	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 enough	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 enough	advmod
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 enough	cop
39	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 seemed	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	42 read	mark
41	even	even	ADV	_	42 read	advmod
42	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 enough	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 names	det
44	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 read	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 books	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 books	det
47	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 names	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 were	punct
49	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	50 were	expl
50	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 read	conj
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 many	advmod
52	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 were	nsubj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 library	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the next room	a library					tree rules
2	see	past	Beast	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	want	past · perfect	Beast				ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	Beast not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	read	past · perfect	Beast						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seem	past	it		Beast				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	not is	would	a whole lifetime					enough property	tree rules
8	read	to-infinitive	a whole lifetime not said here	the names of the books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
9	be	past	many			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	name			the books					nom name «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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