The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 78

Beauty found her supper served just at the time she preferred to have it, but she did not see anyone or hear a sound, and, though her father had warned her that she would be alone, she began to find it rather dull.

Who acts: Beauty, supper, father · What happens: find, serve, prefer, have, not see, hear · To what, where: time, room, anyone, sound, Beauty · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Beauty, supper, father), 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	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 supper	nmod:poss
4	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 served	nsubj
5	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	ccomp
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 time	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 served	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 preferred	nsubj
11	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 time	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 preferred	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 see	advmod
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 see	obj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 hear	cc
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sound	det
25	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hear	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warned	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 warned	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warned	punct
29	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 warned	mark
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 warned	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 warned	aux
33	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 found	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 warned	obj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 alone	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 alone	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 alone	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 alone	cop
39	alone	alone	ADV	_	33 warned	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 began	nsubj
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 find	mark
44	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 began	xcomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 find	obj
46	rather	rather	ADV	_	47 dull	advmod
47	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 find	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Beauty					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	serve	past	Beauty's supper			time		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	prefer	past	supper	the time not said here				tree rules
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	supper not said here	room				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	not see	past · do-support	supper	anyone				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus
6	hear	infinitive	supper not said here	a sound				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
7	warn speech: warn	past · perfect	Beauty's father		Beauty			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
8	is	would	supper				alone property	tree rules
9	begin	past	supper					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	find	to-infinitive	supper not said here	room			dull property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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