The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 25
And when at last she did begin to dream of her beloved Prince she was grieved to see him stretched upon a grassy bank, sad and weary, and hardly like himself.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: begin, dream, grieve, see, stretch · To what, where: last, Beauty, Prince
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 begin | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 begin | mark |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 begin | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begin | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 begin | aux |
| 7 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 dream | mark |
| 9 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begin | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Prince | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Prince | amod |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dream | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grieved | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grieved | aux:pass |
| 16 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 begin | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 grieved | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 grieved | advcl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 bank | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bank | det |
| 23 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bank | amod |
| 24 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretched | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sad | punct |
| 26 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grieved | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 weary | cc |
| 28 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sad | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 himself | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 himself | cc |
| 31 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 33 himself | advmod |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 himself | case |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 grieved | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · do-support | Beauty | last | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dream | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | of Beauty's beloved Prince | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grieve | past · passive | Beauty | like Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | stretch | participle | upon a grassy bank | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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