The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 77
By this time it was growing dusk, and wax candles in diamond and ruby candlesticks were beginning to light themselves in every room.
Who acts: room, wax candles · What happens: grow, begin, light · To what, where: time, candles, room
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 (room, wax candles), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beginning | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 growing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 growing | aux |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 growing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 candles | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 candles | cc |
| 10 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 candles | compound |
| 11 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beginning | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 diamond | case |
| 13 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 candles | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 candlesticks | cc |
| 15 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 candlesticks | compound |
| 16 | candlesticks | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 diamond | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beginning | aux |
| 18 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 light | mark |
| 20 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 beginning | xcomp |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 light | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 room | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 room | det |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 light | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · progressive | room | this time not said here | dusk | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past · progressive | wax candles in diamond and ruby candlesticks | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | light | to-infinitive | wax candles in diamond and ruby candlesticks not said here | candles = candle | every room | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product |
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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