The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 36
Just then a strange sound woke her--someone was speaking not very far away; and opening her eyes she found herself in a room she had never seen before, which was certainly not nearly so splendid as those she was used to in the Beast’s palace.
Who acts: strange sound, someone, sound, room · What happens: wake, not speak, open, find, not see, not be · To what, where: Beauty, eyes, room, sound · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (strange sound, someone, sound, room), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 woke | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sound | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sound | amod |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woke | nsubj |
| 6 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 woke | obj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 speaking | punct |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 speaking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 speaking | aux |
| 11 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 woke | advcl |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 speaking | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 speaking | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 opening | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 opening | cc |
| 18 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 found | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 opening | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woke | parataxis |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 seen | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 seen | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 seen | advmod |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 room | acl:relcl |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 30 seen | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 splendid | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 splendid | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 splendid | cop |
| 35 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 39 splendid | advmod |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 splendid | advmod |
| 37 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 38 so | advmod |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 splendid | advmod |
| 39 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 room | amod |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 those | case |
| 41 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 splendid | obl |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 used | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 used | aux:pass |
| 44 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 those | acl:relcl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 used | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 palace | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Beast | det |
| 48 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 palace | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 48 Beast | case |
| 50 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 those | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | a strange sound | Beauty | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | past · progressive | someone | away property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | open | gerund | sound not said here | sound's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | sound | Beauty | a room | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | |||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect | sound | a room not said here | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | not is | past | a room | as those; certainly, splendid property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | use | past · passive | sound | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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