The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 24
Then she went to bed, but could hardly sleep for joy.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: go, sleep · To what, where: bed
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sleep | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sleep | aux |
| 9 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 10 sleep | advmod |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 joy | case |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sleep | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Beauty | bed | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sleep | could | Beauty not said here | for joy; hardly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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